1 marched out from the camp and took its stand for the encounter. The cavalry was divided into two companies, and the slingers and the archers went ahead of the army, as did all the chief warriors.
12Bacchides was on the right wing. Flanked by the two companies, the phalanx advanced to the sound of the trumpets, and the men with Judas also blew their trumpets.
13 sent his brother as leader of the multitude and begged the Nabateans, who were his friends, for permission to store with them the great amount of baggage that they had.
36But the family of Jambri from Medeba came out and seized John and all that he had and left with it.
37After these things it was reported to Jonathan and his brother Simon, “The family of Jambri are celebrating a great wedding and are conducting the bride, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan, from Nadabath with a large escort.”
38Remembering how their brother John had been killed, they went up and hid under cover of the mountain.
39They looked out and saw a tumultuous procession with a great amount of baggage, and the bridegroom came out with his friends and his brothers to meet them with tambourines and musicians and many weapons.
40 took all their goods.
41So the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge.
42After they had fully avenged the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan.
43 did not cross the Jordan to attack them.
49And about one thousand of Bacchides’s men fell that day.
Bacchides Builds Fortifications50 returned to Jerusalem and built strong cities in Judea: the fortress in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Beth-horon, and Bethel, and Timnath, and Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars.
51And he placed garrisons in them to harass Israel.
52 seized about fifty of the men of the country who were leaders in this treachery and killed them.
62Then Jonathan with his men and Simon withdrew to Bethbasi in the wilderness; he rebuilt the parts of it that had been demolished, and they fortified it.
63When Bacchides learned of this, he assembled all his forces and sent orders to the men of Judea.
64Then he came and encamped against Bethbasi; he fought against it for many days and made engines of war.
65But Jonathan left his brother Simon in the town while he went out into the country, and he went with only a few men.
66He struck down Odomera and his kindred and the people of Phasiron in their tents.
67Then he began to attack and went into battle with his forces, and Simon and his men sallied out from the town and set fire to the engines of war.
68 that he would not try to harm him as long as he lived.
721 Macc 10.33He restored to him the captives whom he had taken previously from the land of Judah; then he turned and went back to his own land and did not come again into their territory.
731 Sam 13.2Thus the sword ceased from Israel. Jonathan settled in Michmash and began to judge the people, and he destroyed the godless out of Israel.
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