19 They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey, and came into the senate, where they spake and said,
20 Judas Maccabe´us 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.
21 So that matter pleased the Romans well.
22 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:
23 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.
24 If there come first any war upon the Romans or any of their confederates throughout all their dominion,
25 the people of the Jews shall help them, as the time shall be appointed, with all their heart: