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2 Maccabees 12:8-10
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Maccabees 12:8-10
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
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 harbour 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, at least five thousand Arabs with five hundred cavalry attacked them.
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- 2 Maccabees 12:9 Gk two hundred and forty stadia
- 2 Maccabees 12:10 Gk nine stadia
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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