, a captain of the people, to desire
the Nabutheans his friends, that they would lend them their equipage,
which was copious.

9:36. And the children of Jambri came forth out of Madaba, and took
John, and all that he had, and went away with them.

9:37. After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, that the
children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride
out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan, with
great pomp.

9:38. And they remembered the blood of John, their brother: and they
went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain.

9:39. And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and
great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and
his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and
many weapons.

9:40. And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in
ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled
into the mountains, and they took all their spoils:

9:41. And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the noise of their
musical instruments into lamentation.

9:42. And they took revenge for the blood of their brother: and they
returned to the bank of the Jordan.

9:43. And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to the
bank of the Jordan, with a great power.

9:44. And Jonathan said to his company: Let us arise, and fight against
our enemies: for it is not now as yesterday, and the day before.

9:45. For behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan on
this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there
is no place for us to turn aside.

9:46. Now, therefore, cry ye to heaven, that ye may be delivered from
the hand of your enemies. And they joined battle.

9:47. And Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, but he
turned away from him backwards.

9:48. And Jonathan, and they that were with him, leapt into the Jordan,
and swam over the Jordan to them.

9:49. And there fell of Bacchides' side that day a thousand men: and
they returned to Jerusalem,

9:50. And they built strong cities in Judea, the fortress that was in
Jericho, and in Ammaus, and in Bethoron, and in Bethel, and Thamnata,
and Phara, and Thopo, with high walls, and gates, and bars.

9:51. And he placed garrisons in them, that they might wage war against
Israel:

9:52. And he fortified the city of Bethsura, and Gaz