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For this cause all Judas' friends came together, and said unto Jonathan,
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Since thy brother Judas died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies, and Bacchides, and against them of our nation that are adversaries to us.
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Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince and captain in his stead, that thou mayest fight our battles.
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Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up instead of his brother Judas.
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But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof, he sought for to slay him
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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.
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Which when Bacchides understood, he came near to Jordan with all his host upon the sabbath day.
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Now Jonathan had sent his brother John, a captain of the people, to pray his friends the Nabathites, that they might leave with them their carriage, which was much.
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But the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.
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After this came word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabatha with a great train, as being the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan.
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Therefore they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain: