1 Maccabees 15:34-36

Good News Translation

³⁴ We are now only making use of this opportunity to recover our ancestral heritage. ³⁵ As for Joppa and Gezer, which you claim, we will give you 6,000 pounds of silver, in spite of the fact that the people of those cities have done great harm to our nation.

Athenobius made no reply, ³⁶ but he returned to the king in a rage. When he told the king what Simon had said, and reported on the splendor of Simon's court and all that he had seen, the king became violently angry.