1 So when this agreement had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their farming. (WEB) 2 But some of the governors of districts, Timotheus and Apollonius the son of Gennaeus, and also Hieronymus and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not allow them to enjoy tranquillity and live in peace. (WEB) 3 Men of Joppa perpetrated this great impiety: they invited the Jews who lived among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had provided, as though they had no ill will toward them. (WEB) 4 When the Jews, relying on the public vote of the city, accepted the invitation, as men desiring to live in peace and suspecting nothing, they took them out to sea and drowned not less than two hundred of them. (WEB) 5 When Judas heard of the cruelty done to his fellow countrymen, giving command to the men that were with him (WEB) 6 and calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against the murderers of his kindred, and set the harbor on fire at night, burned the boats, and put to the sword those who had fled there. (WEB) 7 But when the town gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again to root out the whole community of the men of Joppa. (WEB) 8 But learning that the men of Jamnia intended to do the same thing to the Jews who lived among them, (WEB) 9 he attacked the Jamnites at night, and set fire to the harbor together with the fleet, so that the glare of the light was seen at Jerusalem, two hundred forty furlongs distant. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 12:1–9
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