2 Maccabees 12:8

2 Maccabees 12:8 Context

⁶And calling vpon God the righteous iudge, he came against those murtherers of his brethren, & burnt the hauen by night, and set the boats on fire, and those that fled thither, he slew. ⁷And when the towne was shut vp, he went backward, as if he would returne to root out all them of the citie of Ioppe. ⁸But when he heard that þ^e Iamnites were minded to doe in like maner vnto the Iewes þ^t dwelt among them, ⁹He came vpon the Iamnites also by night, and set fire on the hauen, & the nauy, so that the light of the fire was seene at Ierusalem, two hundred and fortie furlongs off. ¹⁰Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their iourney toward Timotheus, no fewer then fiue thousand men on foote, & fiue hundred horse men of the Arabians, set vpon him.

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