1 Maccabees 15:33-35

Good News Translation

We have never taken land away from other nations or confiscated anything that belonged to other people. On the contrary, we have simply taken back property that we inherited from our ancestors, land that had been unjustly taken away from us by our enemies at one time or another. 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,