1 Maccabees 7:15

15 Alcimus spoke peaceable words to them and swore this oath to them, "We will not seek to injure you or your friends."

1 Maccabees 7:15 In-Context

13 The Hasideans were first among the Israelites to seek peace from them,

14 for they said, "A priest of the line of Aaron has come with the army, and he will not harm us."

15 Alcimus spoke peaceable words to them and swore this oath to them, "We will not seek to injure you or your friends."

16 So they trusted him; but he seized sixty of them and killed them in one day, in accordance with the word that was written,

17 "The flesh of your faithful ones and their blood they poured out all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them."

Footnotes

• [a]. Gk [He]