2 Maccabees 14:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ Nevertheless Nica′nor, hearing of the valor of Judas and his men and their courage in battle for their country, shrank from deciding the issue by bloodshed. ¹⁹ Therefore he sent Posido′nius and Theod′otus and Mattathi′as to give and receive pledges of friendship. ²⁰ When the terms had been fully considered, and the leader had informed the people, and it had appeared that they were of one mind, they agreed to the covenant.