2 Maccabees 11:29
King James VersionSource notes
“Menelaus declared unto us, that your desire was to return home, and to follow your own business:”
Context
26Thou shalt do well therefore to send unto them, and grant them peace, that when they are certified of our mind, they may be of good comfort, and ever go cheerfully about their own affairs.
27And the letter of the king unto the nation of the Jews was after this manner: King Antiochus sendeth greeting unto the council, and the rest of the Jews:
28If ye fare well, we have our desire; we are also in good health.
29Menelaus declared unto us, that your desire was to return home, and to follow your own business:
30Wherefore they that will depart shall have safe conduct till the thirtieth day of Xanthicus with security.
31And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be molested for things ignorantly done.
32I have sent also Menelaus, that he may comfort you.