1 Maccabees 9:43

43 Bacchides heard about this and arrived on the Sabbath at the banks of the Jordan with a large army.

1 Maccabees 9:43 In-Context

41 So the wedding was turned into a time of mourning and their joyful music into funeral songs.

42 Jonathan and Simon had taken full revenge for the death of their brother, and they returned to the marshes along the Jordan.

43 Bacchides heard about this and arrived on the Sabbath at the banks of the Jordan with a large army.

44 Jonathan said to his men, "Now we must fight for our lives. We are in a worse situation than we have ever been in before.

45 The enemy is in front of us, the river is behind us, and marshes and thickets are on both sides of us; there is no way out.