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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.
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When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he commanded those who were with him to make themselves ready.
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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.
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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.
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But when he heard that the Jamnites were minded to do in like manner unto the Jews who dwelt among them,
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he came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire to the haven and the navy, so that the light of the fire was seen in Jerusalem two hundred and forty furlongs off.
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Now when they were gone from thence more than a mile on their journey toward Timothy, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him,
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whereupon there was a very sore battle; but Judas' side by the help of God got the victory, so that the nomads of Arabia, being overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising both to give him cattle and to please him otherwise.
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Then Judas, thinking indeed that they would be profitable in many things, granted them peace, whereupon they shook hands; and so they departed to their tents.
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But those who were within it put such trust in the strength of the walls and provision of victuals, that they behaved themselves rudely toward those who were with Judas, railing and blaspheming, and uttering such words as were not to be spoken.