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Now Judas had heard of the reputation of the Romans: how strong they were, and how well disposed towards any who made common cause with them, making a treaty of friendship with anyone who approached them. (1 Maccabees 8, 1)
Judas had also heard how, when the Greeks planned an expedition to destroy the Romans, (1 Maccabees 8, 9)
'Good fortune attend the Romans and the Jewish nation by sea and land for ever; may sword or enemy be far from them! (1 Maccabees 8, 23)
In the same way, if war comes first to the Jewish nation, the Romans will support them energetically as occasion may offer, (1 Maccabees 8, 27)
Such are the articles under which the Romans have concluded their treaty with the Jewish people. (1 Maccabees 8, 29)
When Jonathan saw that circumstances were working in his favour, he sent a select mission to Rome to confirm and renew his treaty of friendship with the Romans. (1 Maccabees 12, 1)
We have therefore chosen Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, and sent them to the Romans to renew our former treaty of friendship and alliance, (1 Maccabees 12, 16)
'And since King Demetrius has heard that the Romans call the Jews their friends, allies and brothers, (1 Maccabees 14, 38)
'Lucius, consul of the Romans, to King Ptolemy, greetings. (1 Maccabees 15, 16)
He suppressed the liberties which the kings had graciously granted to the Jews at the instance of John, father of that Eupolemus who was later to be sent on an embassy to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Romans and, overthrowing the lawful institutions, introduced new usages contrary to the Law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
Nicanor for his part proposed, by the sale of Jewish prisoners of war, to raise the two thousand talents of tribute money owed by the king to the Romans. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
Thus the man who had promised the Romans to make good their tribute money by selling the prisoners from Jerusalem, bore witness that the Jews had a defender and that they were in consequence invulnerable, since they followed the laws which that defender had ordained. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
