1 Maccabees 12:23-25

New Catholic Bible

²³ We, on our part, affirm that your livestock and your possessions belong to us and that ours belong to you, and we are instructing our envoys to give you a promise to this effect.”

²⁴ Jonathan Thwarts the Syrian Offensive. When Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius had returned to wage war against him with an even larger army than previously, ²⁵ he set forth from Jerusalem and met them in the region of Hamath,^[a] thereby giving them no opportunity to invade his own territory.