1 Maccabees 10:38-40

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁸ And the three cities that are added to Judea, out of the country of Samaria, let them be accounted with Judea: that they may be under one, and obey no other authority but that of the high priest:

³⁹ Ptolemais, and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the holy places, that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the holy things.

⁴⁰ And I give every year fifteen thousand sicles of silver out of the king's accounts, of what belongs to me: