1 Maccabees 8:19–29

And they went to Rome, and the way was exceeding long; and they entered into the Senate house, and answeredand said: ‘Judas, who is also ⁽called⁽ Maccabaeus, and his brethren, and the whole people of the Jews, have sent us unto you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered ⁽as⁽ your confederates and friends.’ And the thing was well-pleasing in their sight. And this is the copy of the writing which they wrote back again on tablets of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that it might be with them there for a memorial of peace and confederacy:

‘Good success be to the Romans, and to the nation of the Jews, by sea and by land for ever; the sword also and the enemy be far from them. But if war arise for Rome first, or for any of their confederates in all their dominion, the nation of the Jews shall help them as confederates as the occasion shall prescribe to them, with all their heart; and unto them that make war they ⁽i.e. the Jews⁽ shall not give, neither supply, food, arms, money, or ships, as it hath seemed good unto Rome; and they ⁽i.e. the Jews⁽ shall observe their obligations, receiving nothing ⁽in the way of a bribe⁽. In the same manner, moreover, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them as confederates with all their soul, as the occasion shall prescribe to them; and to them that are confederates there shall not be given corn, arms, money, or ships, as it hath seemed good unto Rome; and they shall observe these obligations, and that without deceit.’ According to these words have the Romans made ⁽a treaty⁽ with the people of the Jews.