1 Maccabees 15:3–9

³Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it to its former estate; and I have chosen a great army, and have built ships of war.

⁴And I design to go through the country, that I may take revenge of them that have destroyed our country, and that have made many cities desolate in my realm.

⁵Now, therefore, I confirm unto thee all the oblations which all the kings before me remitted to thee, and what other gifts soever they remitted to thee:

⁶And I give thee leave to coin thy own money in thy country:

⁷And let Jerusalem be holy and free, and all the armour that hath been made, and the fortresses which thou hast built, and which thou keepest in thy hands, let them remain to thee.

⁸And all that is due to the king, and what should be the king’s hereafter, from this present and for ever, is forgiven thee.

⁹And when we shall have recovered 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.