1 Maccabees 8:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And how they took him alive, and appointed to him, that both he and they that should reign after him, should pay a great tribute, and that he should give hostages, and that which was agreed upon,

⁸ And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the Lydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken from them they gave to king Eumenes.

⁹ And that they who were in Greece had a mind to go and to destroy them: and they had knowledge thereof,