40 Every year, I'll send you 15,000 pieces of silver from the treasuries in places under my control.
41 For the past few years my officials have failed to send you the extra money that they should have sent. Now they will start sending it again to meet the needs of the temple.
42 In the past, you had to pay me 5,000 pieces of silver every year as a tax on the money the temple earned. Now this tax money will go to the priests who serve in the temple.
43 If anyone is hiding in or around the Jerusalem temple because they owe money to me or someone else, they are free to leave. And any property they own in my kingdom will be returned to them.
44-45 I will pay for repairing and rebuilding the temple. I will also pay for fixing the walls and towers in the towns in Judea, including Jerusalem.
46 Jonathan and the others remembered how cruel King Demetrius had been to them, and they did not believe a word he had written.
47 Instead, they sided with King Alexander, because he had come with the best offer of peace, and they remained his allies until he died.