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he attacked the Jamnites at night, and set fire to the harbor together with the fleet, so that the glare of the light was seen at Jerusalem, two hundred forty furlongs distant.
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Verse 9. Off, or ten leagues. Jerusalem was on elevated ground. Calmet.—A furlong is about the eighth of a mile, (others say the fifth, or a thousand feet) so that the fire was seen at the distance of thirty or forty-eight miles. Worthington.
a furlong is about 201 meters or 220 yards, so 240 furlongs is about 48 km. or 30 miles
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