5. And amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea;
6. and he enlarged the borders of his nation, and got possession of the country;
7. and he gathered together a great number of captives, and got the dominion of Gazara, and Bethsura, and the citadel, and he took away from it its uncleannesses; and there was none that resisted him.
8. And they tilled their land in peace, and the land gave her increase, and the trees of the plains their fruit.
9. The ancient men sat in the streets, they communed all of them together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.