1 Maccabees 10:3

3 Demetrius sent Jonathan a letter in peaceable words to honor him;

1 Maccabees 10:3 In-Context

1 In the one hundred sixtieth year Alexander Epiphanes, son of Antiochus, landed and occupied Ptolemais. They welcomed him, and there he began to reign.

2 When King Demetrius heard of it, he assembled a very large army and marched out to meet him in battle.

3 Demetrius sent Jonathan a letter in peaceable words to honor him;

4 for he said to himself, "Let us act first to make peace with him before he makes peace with Alexander against us,

5 for he will remember all the wrongs that we did to him and to his brothers and his nation."