1 When these covenants were made, Lys´i-as went unto the king, and the Jews were about their husbandry.
2 But of the governors of several places, Timo´theus, and Apol-lo´nius the son of Gen-ne´us, also Hieron´ymus, and Dem´ophon, and beside them Nica´nor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet, and live in peace.
3 The 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.
4 Who 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.
5 When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he commanded those that were with him to make them ready.