2 Maccabees 12:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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 harbor 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.