1 Maccabees 11:33
“We 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.”
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1 Maccabees 11:33 Context
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. 35And as for other things that belong vnto vs of the tithes and customes pertaining vnto vs, as also the salt pits, and the crowne taxes, which are due vnto vs, we discharge them of them all for their reliefe.
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We are determined to do good to the people of the Jews, who are our friends, and keep covenants with us, because of their good will toward us.
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