2 Maccabees 12:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ he attacked the people of Jam′nia by night and set fire to the harbor 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, not less than five thousand Arabs with five hundred horsemen attacked them. ¹¹ After a hard fight Judas and his men won the victory, by the help of God. The defeated nomads besought Judas to grant them pledges of friendship, promising to give him cattle and to help his people^[c] in all other ways.