governor of Cyprus, would not suffer
them to be quiet and live in peace.

2 Mac 12:3
The men of Joppa also did such an ungodly deed: they prayed
the Jews that dwelt among them to go with their wives and
children into the boats which they had prepared, as though they
had meant them no hurt.

2 Mac 12:4
Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the
city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting
nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deep, they
drowned no less than two hundred of them.

2 Mac 12:5
When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he
commanded those that were with him to make them ready.

2 Mac 12:6
And calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against
those murderers of his brethren, and burnt the haven by night,
and set the boats on fire, and those that fled thither he slew.

2 Mac 12:7
And when the town was shut up, he went backward, as if he
would return to root out all them of the city of Joppa.

2 Mac 12:8
But when he heard that the Jamnites were minded to do in like
manner unto the Jews that dwelt among them,

2 Mac 12:9
He came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire on the
haven and the navy, so that the light of the fire was seen at
Jerusalem two hundred and forty furlongs off.

2 Mac 12:10
Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their
journey toward Timotheus, no fewer than five thousand men on
foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.

2 Mac 12:11
Whereupon there was a very sore battle; but Judas' side by
the help of God got the victory; so that the Nomades of Arabia,
being overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising both to give
him cattle, and to pleasure him otherwise.

2 Mac 12:12
Then Judas, thinking indeed that they would be profitable in
many things, granted them peace: whereupon they shook hands, and
so they departed to their tents.

2 Mac 12:13
He went also about to make a bridge to a certain strong city,
which was fenced about with walls, and inhabited by people of
divers countries; and the name of it was Caspis.

2 Mac 12:14
But they that were within it put such trust in the strength
of the walls and provision of victuals, that they behaved
themselves rudely toward them that were with Judas, railing and
blaspheming, and uttering such words as were not to be spoken.

2 Mac 12:15
Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord
of the world, who without rams or e