ed them despitefully.

1 Mac 9:27
So was there a great affliction in Israel, the like whereof
was not since the time that a prophet was not seen among them.

1 Mac 9:28
For this cause all Judas' friends came together, and said
unto Jonathan,

1 Mac 9:29
Since thy brother Judas died, we have no man like him to go
forth against our enemies, and Bacchides, and against them of
our nation that are adversaries to us.

1 Mac 9:30
Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince
and captain in his stead, that thou mayest fight our battles.

1 Mac 9:31
Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time,
and rose up instead of his brother Judas.

1 Mac 9:32
But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof, he sought for to
slay him

1 Mac 9:33
Then Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with
him, perceiving that, fled into the wilderness of Thecoe, and
pitched their tents by the water of the pool Asphar.

1 Mac 9:34
Which when Bacchides understood, he came near to Jordan with
all his host upon the sabbath day.

1 Mac 9:35
Now Jonathan had sent his brother John, a captain of the
people, to pray his friends the Nabathites, that they might
leave with them their carriage, which was much.

1 Mac 9:36
But the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John,
and all that he had, and went their way with it.

1 Mac 9:37
After this came word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that
the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing
the bride from Nadabatha with a great train, as being the
daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan.

1 Mac 9:38
Therefore they remembered John their brother, and went up,
and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:

1 Mac 9:39
Where they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold,
there was much ado and great carriage: and the bridegroom came
forth, and his friends and brethren, to meet them with drums,
and instruments of musick, and many weapons.

1 Mac 9:40
Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against
them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a
slaughter of them in such sort, as many fell down dead, and the
remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.

1 Mac 9:41
Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of
their melody into lamentation.

1 Mac 9:42
So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother,
they turned again to the marsh of Jordan.

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