2 Maccabees 12:1-3

Common English Bible

Judas’ victories

12 Having reached these agreements, Lysias returned to the king while the Jews went back to farming. ² But some of the regional governors—Timothy and Apollonius (Gennaeus’ son), Hieronymous and Demophon, as well as Nicanor the commander from Cyprus—wouldn’t permit them to live in peace. ³ Some men from Joppa committed a horrible act. After calling together the Jews living among them with their wives and children, they invited them to go sailing in boats that they provided. They acted as if they had no hostility against them at all.