1 Maccabees 9:47

47 So the battle began, and Jonathan stretched out his hand to strike Bacchides, but he eluded him and went to the rear.

1 Maccabees 9:47 In-Context

45 For look! the battle is in front of us and behind us; the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that, with marsh and thicket; there is no place to turn.

46 Cry out now to Heaven that you may be delivered from the hands of our enemies."

47 So the battle began, and Jonathan stretched out his hand to strike Bacchides, but he eluded him and went to the rear.

48 Then Jonathan and the men with him leaped into the Jordan and swam across to the other side, and the enemy did not cross the Jordan to attack them.

49 And about one thousand of Bacchides' men fell that day.