1 Maccabees 15:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it to its former estate: and I have chosen a great army, and have built ships of war.

⁴ And I design to go through the country that I may take revenge of them that have destroyed our country, and that have made many cities desolate in my realm.

⁵ Now therefore I confirm unto thee all the oblations which all the kings before me remitted to thee, and what other gifts soever they remitted to thee: