Good News Translation
in the hope of winning Jonathan over to his side and making peace with the Jews before Alexander made a treaty with them against him.

New Revised Standard Version
for he said to himself, “Let us act first to make peace with him before he makes peace with Alexander against us,

Contemporary English Version
He was thinking, "Jonathan could not have forgotten the terrible things I did to him and his brothers and his nation. If I don't hurry and make peace with him, he will join forces with Alexander and attack."

New American Bible
for he said: “Let us be the first to make peace with him, before he makes peace with Alexander against us,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he said: Let us first make a peace with him, before he make one with Alexander against us.

For he said: Let us first make a peace with him, before he make one with Alexander against us.

1 Maccabees 10:2
And king Demetrius heard of it, and gathered together an exceeding great army, and went forth against him to fight.

1 Maccabees 10:3
And Demetrius sent a letter to Jonathan, with peaceable words, to magnify him.

1 Maccabees 10:5
For he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and against his brother, and against his nation.

1 Maccabees 10:6
And he gave him authority to gather together a army, and to make arms, and that he should be his confederate: and the hostages that were in the castle, he commanded to be delivered to him.