11. All the other kingdoms and islands that had ever opposed them they destroyed and enslaved; with their friends, however, and those who relied on them, they maintained friendship.
12. They subjugated kings both near and far, and all who heard of their fame were afraid of them.
13. Those whom they wish to help and to make kings, they make kings; and those whom they wish, they depose; and they were greatly exalted.
14. Yet with all this, none of them put on a diadem or wore purple as a display of grandeur.
15. But they made for themselves a senate chamber, and every day three hundred and twenty men took counsel, deliberating on all that concerned the people and their well-being.
16. They entrust their government to one man every year, to rule over their entire land, and they all obey that one, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.
17. So Judas chose Eupolemus, son of John, son of Accos, and Jason, son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome to establish friendship and alliance with them.
18. He did this to lift the yoke from Israel, for it was obvious that the kingdom of the Greeks was subjecting them to slavery.