1 Maccabees 11:26-28

Good News Translation

²⁶ the king still treated him just as his predecessors had done. He honored him in the presence of all his advisers, ²⁷ and confirmed him as High Priest, restoring all his former honors and appointing him to the highest rank among the

²⁸ Jonathan asked the king to release the territory of Judea and the three regions of Samaria^[a] from the payment of taxes, promising that if Demetrius would do that, he would pay him a lump sum of 22,000 pounds of silver.