5 now therefore I confirm to you all the tax remissions which the kings who were before me remitted to you, and whatever gifts besides they remitted to you, (WEB)
1 Maccabees 15:5
Semantically similar passages
1 Maccabees 10:28–30
28 We will grant you many immunities and give you gifts. (WEB) 29 “Now I free you and release all the Jews from the tributes, from the salt tax, and from the crown levies. (WEB) 30 Instead of the third part of the seed, and instead of half of the fruit of the trees, which falls to… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 13:38–40
38 Whatever things we confirmed to you, they are confirmed. The strongholds, which you have built, let them be your own. (WEB) 39 As for any oversights and faults committed to this day, we forgive them, and the crown tax which you owed us. If there were any other tax coll… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 11:34–36
34 The Romans also sent to them a letter in these words: “Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greetings. (WEB) 35 In regard to the things which Lysias the king’s kinsman granted you, we also give consent. (WEB) 36 But as for the t… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 10:32–34
32 I yield up also my authority over the citadel which is at Jerusalem, and give it to the high priest, that he may appoint in it men whom he chooses to keep it. (WEB) 33 Every soul of the Jews who has been carried captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdo… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 11:34–36
34 We have confirmed therefore to them the borders of Judea, and also the three governments of Aphaerema, Lydda, and Ramathaim (these were added to Judea from the country of Samaria), and all their territory to them, for all who do sacrifice in Jerusalem, instea… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 11:22–24
22 And the king’s letter contained these words: “King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greetings. (WEB) 23 Seeing that our father passed to the gods having the wish that the subjects of his kingdom should be undisturbed and give themselves to the care of their own affairs, (WEB)
2 Maccabees 9:25–27
25 and, moreover, observing how the princes who are along the borders and neighbors to my kingdom watch for opportunities and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I often entrusted and commended to most of you when I was… (WEB) 26 … (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:17–19
17 The holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem, (WEB) 18 and whatever else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury. (WEB) 19 I, King Artaxerxes, have al… (WEB)
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources