30
Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince and captain in his stead, that thou mayest fight our battles.
31
Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up instead of his brother Judas.
32
But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof, he sought for to slay him
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.
34
Which when Bacchides understood, he came near to Jordan with all his host upon the sabbath day.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.