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In a rage he swore: "If Judas and his army are not delivered to me at once, when I return victorious I will burn this temple down." He went away in great anger. (1 Maccabees 7, 35)
He was also told of their battles and the brave deeds that they had performed against the Gauls, conquering them and forcing them to pay tribute. (1 Maccabees 8, 2)
and by planning and persistence had conquered the whole country, although it was very remote from their own. They had crushed the kings who had come against them from the far corners of the earth and had inflicted on them severe defeat, and the rest paid tribute to them every year. (1 Maccabees 8, 4)
They had taken him alive and obliged him and the kings who succeeded him to pay a heavy tribute, to give hostages and a section of (1 Maccabees 8, 7)
"I now free you, as I also exempt all the Jews, from the tribute, the salt tax, and the crown levies. (1 Maccabees 10, 29)
All the additional funds that the officials did not hand over as they had done in the first years, shall henceforth be handed over for the services of the temple. (1 Maccabees 10, 41)
Whoever takes refuge in the temple of Jerusalem or in any of its precincts, because of money he owes the king, or because of any other debt, shall be released, together with all the goods he possesses in my kingdom. (1 Maccabees 10, 43)
The horsemen too were scattered over the plain. The enemy fled to Azotus and entered Beth-dagon, the temple of their idol, to save themselves. (1 Maccabees 10, 83)
But Jonathan burned and plundered Azotus with its neighboring towns, and destroyed by fire both the temple of Dagon and the men who had taken refuge in it. (1 Maccabees 10, 84)
When he reached Azotus, he was shown the temple of Dagon destroyed by fire, Azotus and its suburbs demolished, corpses lying about, and the charred bodies of those burned by Jonathan in the war and stacked up along his route. (1 Maccabees 11, 4)
Jonathan asked the king to exempt Judea and the three districts of Samaria from tribute, promising him in return three hundred talents. (1 Maccabees 11, 28)
From this day on we grant them release from payment of all other things that would henceforth be due to us, that is, of tithes and tribute and of the tax on the salt pans and the crown tax. (1 Maccabees 11, 35)
