1 Maccabees 9:40

40 Then they rushed on them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain; and the Jews took all their goods.

1 Maccabees 9:40 In-Context

38 Remembering how their brother John had been killed, they went up and hid under cover of the mountain.

39 They 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 Then they rushed on them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain; and the Jews took all their goods.

41 So the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge.

42 After they had fully avenged the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan.

Footnotes

• [a] Gk [they]