2 Maccabees 12:17
“I once heard a Hebrew explaining that those Jews are called Tubianaeans who, after foreigners had been summoned, came to the aid of Judea, and that they were called Tubianaeans as if they had been brought in by foreign trumpets.”
Source: Septuagint
17Then departed they from thence seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to Charax unto the Jews that are called Toubiani.
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15Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without any rams or engines of war did cast down Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave a fierce assault against the walls,
16and took the city by the will of God, and made unspeakable slaughters, insomuch that a lake two furlongs broad near adjoining thereunto, being filled full, was seen running with blood.
— 2 Maccabees 12:17 —
18But as for Timothy, they found him not in the places: for before he had dispatched anything, he departed from thence, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold.
19Howbeit Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabeus’ captains, went forth, and slew those that Timothy had left in the fortress, above ten thousand men.