1 Maccabees 11:27-29

Good News Translation

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. ²⁹ The king agreed and wrote a letter to Jonathan to confirm all this: