Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation In reply, we will send you a letter indicating that we are willing to share our possessions, including cattle and property, if you will do the same. We have given orders to our ambassadors to give you a full report about these matters.'" New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And we also have written back to you, That our cattle, and our possessions, are yours: and yours, ours. We, therefore, have commanded that these things should be told you. 1 Maccabees 12:21It is found in writing concerning the Spartans, and the Jews, that they are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham. 1 Maccabees 12:22 And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to write to us of your prosperity. 1 Maccabees 12:24 Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again with a greater army than before to fight against him. 1 Maccabees 12:25 So he went out from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amath: for he gave them no time to enter into his country. Context 1 Maccabees 12…22And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to write to us of your prosperity. 23And we also have written back to you, That our cattle, and our possessions, are yours: and yours, ours. We, therefore, have commanded that these things should be told you. 24Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again with a greater army than before to fight against him.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 12:21 It is found in writing concerning the Spartans, and the Jews, that they are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham. 1 Maccabees 12:22 And now since this is come to our knowledge, you do well to write to us of your prosperity. 1 Maccabees 12:24 Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again with a greater army than before to fight against him. 1 Maccabees 12:25 So he went out from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amath: for he gave them no time to enter into his country. |