1 Maccabees 12:5
Good News Translation
Here is a copy of the letter Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

New Revised Standard Version
This is a copy of the letter that Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

Contemporary English Version
Jonathan himself wrote a letter to the people of Sparta in which he said:

New American Bible
This is a copy of the letter that Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans:

1 Maccabees 12:3
And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said: Jonathan, the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent us to renew the amity, and alliance, as it was before.

1 Maccabees 12:4
And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace.

1 Maccabees 12:6
Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting.

1 Maccabees 12:7
There were letters sent long ago to Onias the high priest, from Arius, who reigned then among you to signify that you are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.

Context
1 Maccabees 12
4And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace. 5And this is a copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Spartans: 6Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 12:3
And they went to Rome, and entered into the senate house, and said: Jonathan, the high priest, and the nation of the Jews, have sent us to renew the amity, and alliance, as it was before.

1 Maccabees 12:4
And they gave them letters to their governors in every place, to conduct them into the land of Juda with peace.

1 Maccabees 12:6
Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients of the nation, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting.

1 Maccabees 12:7
There were letters sent long ago to Onias the high priest, from Arius, who reigned then among you to signify that you are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.



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1 Maccabees 12:4
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