1
When these covenants were made, Lysias went unto the king, and the Jews were about their husbandry.
2
But of the governors of several places, Timothy and Apollonius the son of Gennaeus, also Hieronymus and Demophon, and besides them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet and live in peace.
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. He also went about to make a bridge to a certain strong city, which was fortified about with walls and inhabited by people of divers countries; and the name of it was Caspin.
4
They accepted it, according to the common decree of the city, as being desirous to live in peace and suspecting nothing; but when they had gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two hundred of them.
5
When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he commanded those who were with him to make themselves ready.
6
And, calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against those murderers of his brethren, and burned the haven by night and set the boats on fire, and those who fled thither he slew.
7
And when the town was shut up, he went backward, as if he would return to root out all those of the city of Joppa.
8
But when he heard that the Jamnites were minded to do in like manner unto the Jews who dwelt among them,