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2 Maccabees 12:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 12:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
7 Then, because the city’s gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again and root out the whole community of Joppa. 8 But learning that the people in Jamnia meant in the same way to wipe out the Jews who were living among them, 9 he attacked the Jamnites 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.
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- 2 Maccabees 12:9 Gk two hundred forty stadia
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