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2 Maccabees 12:9-11
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 12:9-11
New Catholic Bible
9 he attacked the Jamnians by night and set fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the flames was visible as far off as Jerusalem, thirty miles away.[a]
10 Judas Intervenes in Galaad.[b] When the Jews had proceeded more than a mile from there in their campaign against Timothy, they were attacked by at least five thousand Arab infantrymen supported by five hundred horsemen. 11 After a fierce struggle, Judas and his companions were victorious with the help of God. The defeated nomads begged Judas to make a pact of friendship with them, and they promised to supply the Jews with cattle and to help them in every other way possible.
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- 2 Maccabees 12:9 Thirty miles away: the distance is approximated; from Jerusalem to the ancient port of Jamnia was a distance of some thirty-five miles.
- 2 Maccabees 12:10 This campaign, which has no connection with the preceding episode, is recounted with greater precision and coherence in 1 Mac 5:9-68.
