2 Maccabees 12:4
“Now these Joppites, of whom Scripture speaks, were inhabitants of a town in Palestine called Joppa, a coastal place located in the tribe of Dan; and, to touch briefly on the tales of the pagans, even to this day they show there very high rocks, situated on the sea shore, on which Andromeda, it is said, was once bound…”
4Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two hundred of them.
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2But of the governours of several places, Timotheus, and Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet and live in peace.
3The 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.
— 2 Maccabees 12:4 —
5When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he commanded those that were with him to make them ready.
6And calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against those murderers of his brethren, and burnt the haven by night, and set the boats on fire, and those that fled thither he slew.