1 Maccabees 14:23-25

Revised Standard Version

²³ It has pleased our people to receive these men with honor and to put a copy of their words in the public archives, so that the people of the Spartans may have a record of them. And they have sent a copy of this to Simon the high priest.’”

²⁴ After this Simon sent Nume′nius to Rome with a large gold shield weighing a thousand minas, to confirm the alliance with the Romans.^[a]

Official Honors for Simon

²⁵ When the people heard these things they said, “How shall we thank Simon and his sons?