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Likewise, any oversight or fault, even to this day, we forgive it, along with the crown that you owed. And if anything else was taxed in Jerusalem, now let it not be taxed. (1 Maccabees 13, 39)
But those who were in the stronghold of Jerusalem were prohibited from going out and entering the region, and from buying and selling. And they were very hungry, and many of them perished through famine. (1 Maccabees 13, 49)
And they were read in the sight of the assembly at Jerusalem. And this is a copy of the letters that the Spartans sent: (1 Maccabees 14, 19)
And in his days, there was prosperity by his hands, so that the Gentiles were taken away from their country, and also those who were in the city of David, in Jerusalem, in the stronghold, from which they went out and contaminated all the places that were around the sanctuary, and from which they brought a great scourging against chastity. (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
And he placed in it Jewish men, as a means of protection for the region and the city, and he raised the walls of Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 14, 37)
Moreover, let Jerusalem be holy and free. And all the weapons that have been made, and the fortresses that you have constructed, or that you hold, let them remain with you. (1 Maccabees 15, 7)
And he sent to him Athenobius, one of his friends, to deal with him, saying: “You hold Joppa and Gazara, and the stronghold that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my kingdom. (1 Maccabees 15, 28)
So Athenobius, the friend of the king, came to Jerusalem and saw the glory of Simon, and his splendor in gold and silver, and his abundance of equipment, and he was astonished. And he repeated the words of the king to him. (1 Maccabees 15, 32)
And he sent others to occupy Jerusalem and the mountain of the temple. (1 Maccabees 16, 20)
To the brothers, the Jews, who are throughout Egypt: the brothers, the Jews, who are in Jerusalem and in the region of Judea, send greetings and good peace. (2 Maccabees 1, 1)
In the one hundred and eighty-eighth year, from the people who are at Jerusalem and in Judea, and from the Senate and Judas: to Aristobulus, the magistrate of king Ptolemy, who is of the ancestry of anointed priests, and to those Jews who are in Egypt: greetings and good health. (2 Maccabees 1, 10)
and he announced to him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of innumerable sums of money, and that the common storehouse, which did not pertain to the allotment for the sacrifices, was immense, and that it would be possible for all of this to fall under the power of the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 6)
