1 Maccabees 15:3–9

Forasmuch as pestilent fellows have made themselves masters of the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to claim the kingdom, that I may restore it as before,—I have, moreover, raised a multitude of foreign soldiers, and have prepared ships of war, and I have determined to land in the country, that I may punish them that have devastated our country, and them that have made many cities in the kingdom desolate,—I therefore ⁽herewith⁽ confirm unto thee ⁽the release from⁽ all the exactions which the kings that were before me remitted unto thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they remitted unto thee; and I give thee leaveto coin money for thy country with thine own stamp. And Jerusalem and the sanctuary shall be free; and all the arms which thou hast prepared, and the strongholds which thou hast built, which thou hast in thy possession, let them remain unto thee. And everything owing to the king, and the things that shall be owing to the king, let them be remitted unto thee from now and unto all time. Moreover, when we shall have established our kingdom, we will glorify thee and thy nation and the Temple with great glory , so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.’