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On hearing that the people of Jamnia planned in the same way to wipe out the Jews who lived among them, he attacked the Jamnians by night, setting fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the flames was visible as far as Jerusalem, thirty miles away.

More Victories by Judas. 10 (A)When the Jews had gone about a mile from there[a] in the march against Timothy, they were attacked by Arabians numbering at least five thousand foot soldiers and five hundred cavalry.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:10 From there: not from Jamnia (vv. 8–9) or Joppa (vv. 3–7), but from a place in Transjordan; vv. 10–26 parallel the account given in 1 Mc 5:9–13, 24–54 of Judas’ campaign in northern Transjordan.