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"And now I free you and exempt all the Jews from payment of tribute and salt tax and crown levies, (1 Maccabees 10, 29)
And every one of the Jews taken as a captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set free without payment; and let all officials cancel also the taxes on their cattle. (1 Maccabees 10, 33)
"And all the feasts and sabbaths and new moons and appointed days, and the three days before a feast and the three after a feast -- let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews who are in my kingdom. (1 Maccabees 10, 34)
"Let Jews be enrolled in the king's forces to the number of thirty thousand men, and let the maintenance be given them that is due to all the forces of the king. (1 Maccabees 10, 36)
"King Demetrius to Jonathan his brother and to the nation of the Jews, greeting. (1 Maccabees 11, 30)
To the nation of the Jews, who are our friends and fulfil their obligations to us, we have determined to do good, because of the good will they show toward us. (1 Maccabees 11, 33)
So the king called the Jews to his aid, and they all rallied about him and then spread out through the city; and they killed on that day as many as a hundred thousand men. (1 Maccabees 11, 47)
When the men of the city saw that the Jews had gained control of the city as they pleased, their courage failed and they cried out to the king with this entreaty, (1 Maccabees 11, 49)
"Grant us peace, and make the Jews stop fighting against us and our city." (1 Maccabees 11, 50)
And they threw down their arms and made peace. So the Jews gained glory in the eyes of the king and of all the people in his kingdom, and they returned to Jerusalem with much spoil. (1 Maccabees 11, 51)
So they went to Rome and entered the senate chamber and said, "Jonathan the high priest and the Jewish nation have sent us to renew the former friendship and alliance with them." (1 Maccabees 12, 3)
"Jonathan the high priest, the senate of the nation, the priests, and the rest of the Jewish people to their brethren the Spartans, greeting. (1 Maccabees 12, 6)