4. For he said, "Let us first make a peace with him, before he makes one with Alexander against us.
5. For he will remember all the evils that we have done to him, and to his brother, and to his nation."
6. And he gave him the authority to gather together an army, and to fabricate weapons, so that he would be his associate. And the hostages who were in the stronghold, he ordered to be handed over to him.
7. And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and he read the letters in the hearing of all the people and of those who were in the stronghold.