2 Maccabees 12:29-31

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁹ From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem.

³⁰ But the Jews that were among the Scythopolitans testifying that they were used kindly by them, and that even in the times of their adversity they had treated them with humanity:

³¹ They gave them thanks exhorting them to be still friendly to their nation, and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks being at hand.