1 Maccabees 11:24-26

New Catholic Bible

²⁴ by taking silver, gold, clothing, and numerous other gifts and journeying to Ptolemais, where by means of these gifts he won the favor of Demetrius. ²⁵ Although some renegade Jews of his own nation brought charges against him, ²⁶ the king treated him just as his predecessors had done and honored him in the presence of all his Friends.