1 Maccabees 11:32

1 Maccabees 11:32 Context

³⁰King Demetrius vnto his brother Ionathan, and vnto the nation of the Iewes, sendeth greeting. ³¹We send you heere a copie of the letter, which we did write vnto our cousin Lasthenes, concerning you, that you might see it. ³²King Demetrius vnto his father Lasthenes, sendeth greeting: ³³We are determined to doe good to the people of the Iewes, who are our friends, and keepe couenants with vs, because of their good will towards vs. ³⁴Wherefore we haue ratified vnto them the borders of Iudea, with the three gouernments of Apherema, and Lidda, and Ramathem, that are added vnto Iudea, from the countrie of Samaria, and all things appertaining vnto them, for all such, as doe sacrifice in Ierusalem, in stead of the paiments, which the king receiued of them yeerely aforetime out of the fruits of the earth, and of trees.

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