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When Bacchides understood this, he came near to the 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 Nabateans that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much.
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But the children of Jambri came out of Medeba, and seized 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 Nadabath with a great train, she being the daughter of one of the great princes of Canaan.
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Therefore they remembered John their brother and went up and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain,
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where they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, there was much ado and much baggage; and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and brethren, to meet them with drums and instruments of music and many weapons.
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Then Jonathan and those who were with him rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a slaughter of them in such manner that many fell down dead; and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.
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Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.
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So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned back to the marsh of the Jordan.
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Now when Bacchides heard hereof, he came on the Sabbath day unto the banks of the Jordan with great power.
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Then Jonathan said to his company, "Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us today as in time past.