1 Maccabees 15:34-36

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁴ Now that we have the opportunity, we are firmly holding the inheritance of our fathers. ³⁵ As for Joppa and Gazar′a, which you demand, they were causing great damage among the people and to our land; for them we will give a hundred talents.” Athenob′ius^[a] did not answer him a word, ³⁶ but returned in wrath to the king and reported to him these words and the splendor of Simon and all that he had seen. And the king was greatly angered.