2 Maccabees 12:6

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.

2 Maccabees 12:6 In-Context

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,