2 Maccabees 12:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ he attacked the Jamnites by night and set fire to the harbour and the fleet, so that the glow of the light was seen in Jerusalem, thirty miles^[a] distant.

The Campaign in Gilead

¹⁰ When they had gone more than a mile^[b] from there, on their march against Timothy, at least five thousand Arabs with five hundred cavalry attacked them. ¹¹ After a hard fight, Judas and his companions, with God’s help, were victorious. The defeated nomads begged Judas to grant them pledges of friendship, promising to give him livestock and to help his people^[c] in all other ways.