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2 Maccabees 12:7-9
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 12:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 Then, because the gates of the town were closed, he withdrew, intending to return later and wipe out the entire community of Joppa.
8 However, after learning that the people of Jamnia planned to deal in the same way with the Jews who lived among them, 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]
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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.
