2 Maccabees 9:21

21 As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honor and good will. Returning out of Persia and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all.

2 Maccabees 9:21 In-Context

19 Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity.

20 If ye and your children fare well and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.

21 As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honor and good will. Returning out of Persia and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all.

22 Not distrusting mine health, and having great hope to escape this sickness,

23 but considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries, appointed a successor