1 Maccabees 8:4

how they had acquired the mines of silver and gold there; and how that by their policy and persistence they had conquered the whole land ⁽and the land was exceeding far from them⁽; also ⁽they told⁽ of the kings that had come against them from the uttermost part of the earth, until they had discomfited them, and smitten them very sore; and how the rest had given them tribute year by year.