2 Maccabees 12:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And having taken the city by the will of the Lord, he made an unspeakable slaughter, so that a pool adjoining of two furlongs broad seemed to run with the blood of the slain.

¹⁷ From thence they departed seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to Characa to the Jews that are called Tubianites.

¹⁸ But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for before he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold: