3 Maccabees 3:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ Both I myself and our affairs prosper. ¹⁴ After our campaign against Asia Minor came to a successful conclusion, as you yourselves are aware, with the gods fighting alongside us, ¹⁵ we thought that we should care for the nations inhabiting Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, not with the violence of the spear but with fairness and much kindness, eagerly treating them well.