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Eumenes... King of Pergamus.
8:9. And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy
them: and they had knowledge thereof,
8:10. And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and
many of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their
children captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land,
and threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto
this day.
8:11. And the other kingdoms, and islands, that at any time had resisted
them, they had destroyed and brought under their power.
8:12. But with their friends, and such as relied upon them, they kept
amity, and had conquered kingdoms that were near, and that were far off:
for all that heard their name, were afraid of them.
8:13. That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and
whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were greatly
exalted.
8:14. And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to
be magnified thereby.
8:15. And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted
daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the
people, that they might do the things that were right:
8:16. And that they committed their government to one man every year, to
rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy
nor jealousy amongst them.
To one man... There were two consuls: but one only ruled at one time,
each in his day.-Ibid. No envy, etc... So Judas had heard: and it was so
far true, with regard to the ancient Romans, that as yet no envy or
jealousy had divided them into such open factions and civil wars, as
they afterwards experienced in the time of Marius and Sylla, etc.
8:17. So Judas chose Eupolemus, the son of John, the son of Jacob, and
Jason, the son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome to make a league of
amity and confederacy with them:
8:18. And that they might take off from them the yoke of the Grecians,
for they saw that they oppressed the kingdom of Israel with servitude.
8:19. And they went to Rome, a very long journey, and they entered into
the senate house, and said:
8:20. Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, and the people of the Jews,
have sent us to you to make alliance and peace with you, and that we may
be registered your confederates and friends.
8:21. And the proposal was pleasing in their sight.
8:22. And this is the copy of the writing that they wrote back again,
graven in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with
them there for a memorial of the peace, and alliance. 8:23. GOOD
SUCCESS BE TO THE ROMANS, and to the people of the Jews by sea, and by
land, for ever: and far be the sword and enemy from them.
8:24. But if there come first any war upon the Romans, or any of their
confederates, in all their dominions:
8:25. The nation of the Jews shall help them according as the time shall
direct, with all their heart:
8:26. Neither shall they give them, whilst they are fighting, or furnish
them with wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to
the Romans: and they shall obey their orders, without taking any thing
of them.
8:27. In like manner also if war shall come first upon the nation of the
Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as the
time shall permit them:
8:28. And there shall not be given to them that come to their aid,
either wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the
Romans: and they shall observe their orders without deceit.
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