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It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under
their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time
resisted them;

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But with their friends and such as relied upon them they kept
amity: and that they had conquered kingdoms both far and nigh,
insomuch as all that heard of their name were afraid of them:

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Also that, whom they would help to a kingdom, those reign;
and whom again they would, they displace: finally, that they
were greatly exalted:

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Yet for all this none of them wore a crown or was clothed in
purple, to be magnified thereby:

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Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house,
wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily,
consulting alway for the people, to the end they might be well
ordered:

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And that they committed their government to one man every
year, who ruled over all their country, and that all were
obedient to that one, and that there was neither envy nor
emmulation among them.

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In consideration of these things, Judas chose Eupolemus the
son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and
sent them to Rome, to make a league of amity and confederacy
with them,

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And to intreat them that they would take the yoke from them;
for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel
with servitude.

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They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey,
and came into the senate, where they spake and said.

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Judas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the
Jews, have sent us unto you, to make a confederacy and peace
with you, and that we might be registered your confederates and
friends.

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So that matter pleased the Romans well.

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And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote
back again in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that there
they might have by them a memorial of peace and confederacy:

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Good success be to the Romans, and to the people of the Jews,
by sea and by land for ever: the sword also and enemy be far
from them,

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If there come first any war upon the Romans or any of their
confederates throughout all their dominion,

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The people of the Jews shall help them, as the time shall be
appointed, with all their heart:

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Neither shall they give any thing unto them that make war
upon them, or aid them with victua