2 Maccabees 12:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ They took the city by God’s will and killed so many men that a nearby lake a quarter of a mile^[a] wide appeared to be filled with blood.

¹⁷ Withdrawing from there, they made a journey of ninety-four miles^[b] to Charax, to those Jews who are called Toubians. ¹⁸ They didn’t find Timothy in the area because he left the region without any success, except that he left behind one military force in a well-secured place.