Good News Translation
they engraved on bronze tablets a renewal of the treaty of friendship which they had made with his brothers Judas and Jonathan and sent the tablets to him.

New Revised Standard Version
they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew with him the friendship and alliance that they had established with his brothers Judas and Jonathan.

Contemporary English Version
The Romans and Spartans wanted Simon to be their friend and ally, just as his brothers had been, so they wrote him letters on sheets of bronze.

New American Bible
they sent him inscribed tablets of bronze to renew with him the friendship and alliance that they had established with his brothers Judas and Jonathan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They wrote to him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and alliance which they had made with Judas and with Jonathan, his brethren.

They wrote to him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and alliance which they had made with Judas and with Jonathan, his brethren.

1 Maccabees 14:16
And it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead: and they were very sorry.

1 Maccabees 14:17
But when they heard that Simon, his brother, was made high priest in his place, and was possessed of all the country, and the cities therein:

1 Maccabees 14:19
And they were read before the assembly in Jerusalem. And this is the copy of the letters that the Spartans sent.

1 Maccabees 14:20
The princes and the cities of the Spartans, to Simon, the high priest, and to the ancients, and the priests, and the rest of the people of the Jews, their brethren, greeting.