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It is day 309. We're reading the second book of Maccabees, chapter 12, as well as wisdom, chapter 13 and 14, and Proverbs chapter 25, 11 through 14. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast and receive daily episodes and daily updates. Of course, unless you are listening on YouTube, in which case you probably already subscribe to Ascension Presents. It's day 309. We're reading 2nd Maccabees chapter 12, wisdom, chapters 13 and 14,

and proverb chapter 25, verses 11 through 14. The second book of the Maccabees,

Chapter 12, Incidents at Joppa and Jamnia. When this agreement had been reached, Lysseus returned

to the king, and the Jews went about their farming.

But some of the governors in various places, Timothy and Apollonius, the son of Geneas, as well as Hieronymus and Demophon, and in addition to these, Nicanor, the governor of Cyprus, would not let them live quietly and in peace.

And some of the men of Joppa did so ungodly a deed as this. They invited the Jews who lived

among them to embark with their wives and children on boats which they had provided as though

there were no ill-will to the Jews. And this was done by public vote of the city. And when they accepted,

because they wished to live peaceably and suspected nothing, The men of Joppa took them out to sea

and drowned them, not less than 200. When Judas heard of the cruelty visited on his countrymen,

he gave orders to his men in calling upon God the righteous judge attacked the murderers of his

brethren. He set fire to the harbor by night and burned the boats and massacred those who had taken refuge there.

Then, because the city's gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again and root out the whole community of Joppa.

But learning that the men in Jamnia meant in the same way to wipe out the Jews who were living among them,

he attacked the people of Jamnia by night and set fire to the harbor and the fleet

so that the glow of the light was seen in Jerusalem, 30 miles distant. The campaign in Gilead

When they had gone more than a mile from there on their march against Timothy, not less than

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