1 Maccabees 12:2
“He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.”
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1 Maccabees 12:2 Context
1Nowe when Ionathan saw that the time serued him, he chose certaine men and sent them to Rome, for to confirme and renew the friendship that they had with them. 2He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose. 3So they went vnto Rome, and entred into the Senate, and said, Ionathan the high Priest, and the people of the Iewes sent vs vnto you, to the end you should renew the friendship which you had with them, and league, as in former time. 4Upon this the Romanes gaue them letters vnto the gouernours of euery place, that they should bring them into the land of Iudea peaceably.
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He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.
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