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Jonathan received the message, but he ordered the siege to continue. Then he decided to risk himself, and went to see the king with the elders and priests of Israel. (1 Maccabees 11, 23)
Bringing gold, silver, fine garments and other presents, they went before the king in Ptolemias and won him over. (1 Maccabees 11, 24)
But the king in the presence of all his Friends treated Jonathan as kings before had treated him. (1 Maccabees 11, 26)
He confirmed Jonathan's office as high priest with all the privileges he already had. And he numbered him among his first Friends. (1 Maccabees 11, 27)
Jonathan asked the king to exempt Judea and the three districts of Samaria from taxes, and promised him three hundred talents in return. (1 Maccabees 11, 28)
The king agreed and wrote to Jonathan regarding the matter in these terms: (1 Maccabees 11, 29)
We are sending you a copy of the letter we have written to our kinsman Lasthenes that you may know: (1 Maccabees 11, 31)
King Demetrius greets his kinsman Lasthenes. (1 Maccabees 11, 32)
We confirm the possession of the territory of Judea and the three regions of Aphairema, Kydda and Ramathaim which have been annexed to Judea from Samaria, with all their dependencies. And to all who go up to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice, we grant exemption from the tax the king formerly received from them annually until now, from the produce of the soil and from the fruit of the trees. (1 Maccabees 11, 34)
In the same way, they shall also be exempt from the other taxes due to us, especially from the taxes on the produce of the salt mines, and the gold crowns they formerly offered us. (1 Maccabees 11, 35)
None of these privileges shall ever be annulled. (1 Maccabees 11, 36)
King Demetrius was able to place the kingdom under his rule and no one dared oppose him, so he dismissed his army, sent all the men back to their homes, except the foreign troops he had recruited from the islands of the pagans. And this drew the hatred of all the troops who had served his fathers. (1 Maccabees 11, 38)
