1 Maccabees 14:18

18 they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew with him the friendship and alliance which they had established with Judas and Jonathan his brothers.

1 Maccabees 14:18 In-Context

16 It was heard in Rome, and as far away as Sparta, that Jonathan had died, and they were deeply grieved.

17 When they heard that Simon his brother had become high priest in his place, and that he was ruling over the country and the cities in it,

18 they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew with him the friendship and alliance which they had established with Judas and Jonathan his brothers.

19 And these were read before the assembly in Jerusalem.

20 This is a copy of the letter which the Spartans sent: "The rulers and the city of the Spartans to Simon the high priest and to the elders and the priests and the rest of the Jewish people, our brethren, greeting.