1 Maccabees 15:35
Good News Translation
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,

New Revised Standard Version
As for Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they were causing great damage among the people and to our land; for them we will give you one hundred talents.” Athenobius did not answer him a word,

Contemporary English Version
The towns of Joppa and Gazara that you want have been a constant bother to us, and we will pay you 100,000 pieces of silver for them. Athenobius was so furious that he could not speak. He returned to Antiochus and told him what Simon had said. He also let him know about Simon's great wealth and everything else he had seen. This report made Antiochus very angry.

New American Bible
As for Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, those cities were doing great harm to our people and our country. For these we will give you a hundred talents.” Athenobius made no reply,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word.

1 Maccabees 15:33
And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's, but the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies.

1 Maccabees 15:34
But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers.

1 Maccabees 15:36
But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king was exceeding angry.

1 Maccabees 15:37
And Tryphon fled away by ship to Orthosias.

Context
1 Maccabees 15
34But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers. 35And as to thy complaints concerning Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm to the people, and to our country: yet for these we will give a hundred talents. And Athenobius answered him not a word. 36But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king was exceeding angry.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 15:33
And Simon answered him, and said to him: We have neither taken other men's land, neither do we hold that which is other men's, but the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies.

1 Maccabees 15:34
But we having opportunity, claim the inheritance of our fathers.

1 Maccabees 15:36
But returning in a rage to the king, made report to him of these words, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen, and the king was exceeding angry.

1 Maccabees 15:37
And Tryphon fled away by ship to Orthosias.



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1 Maccabees 15:34
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