2 Maccabees 12:6
Good News Translation
After they had prayed to God, the just judge, they attacked the murderers. Under cover of darkness they set fire to the harbor, burning all the ships, and killing everyone they found hiding there.

New Revised Standard Version
and, calling upon God, the righteous judge, attacked the murderers of his kindred. He set fire to the harbor by night, burned the boats, and massacred those who had taken refuge there.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone prayed to God, who always judges fairly. Then after dark, Judas and his troops attacked the murderers and set the harbor on fire. They destroyed its ships and killed everyone they caught hiding there.

New American Bible
and after calling upon God, the just judge, he marched against the murderers of his kindred. In a night attack he set the harbor on fire, burned the boats, and put to the sword those who had taken refuge there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He came against those murderers of his brethren, and set the haven on fire in the night, burnt the boats, and slew with the sword them that escaped from the fire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He came against those murderers of his brethren, and set the haven on fire in the night, burnt the boats, and slew with the sword them that escaped from the fire.

2 Maccabees 12:4
Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of them.

2 Maccabees 12:5
But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty done to his countrymen, he commanded the men that were with him: and after having called upon God, the just judge,

2 Maccabees 12:7
And when he had done these things in this manner, he departed as if he would return again, and root out all the Joppites.

2 Maccabees 12:8
But when he understood that the men of Jamnia also designed to do in like manner to the Jews that dwelt among them,

Context
2 Maccabees 12
5But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty done to his countrymen, he commanded the men that were with him: and after having called upon God, the just judge, 6He came against those murderers of his brethren, and set the haven on fire in the night, burnt the boats, and slew with the sword them that escaped from the fire. 7And when he had done these things in this manner, he departed as if he would return again, and root out all the Joppites.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 12:4
Which when they had consented to, according to the common decree of the city, suspecting nothing, because of the peace: when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no fewer than two hundred of them.

2 Maccabees 12:5
But as soon as Judas heard of this cruelty done to his countrymen, he commanded the men that were with him: and after having called upon God, the just judge,

2 Maccabees 12:7
And when he had done these things in this manner, he departed as if he would return again, and root out all the Joppites.

2 Maccabees 12:8
But when he understood that the men of Jamnia also designed to do in like manner to the Jews that dwelt among them,



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2 Maccabees 12:5
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