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They raised their eyes and looked, and saw a tumultuous procession with much 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 upon them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain; and they took all their goods.
41
Thus the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge.
42
And when they had fully avenged the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan.
43
When Bacchides heard of this, he came with a large force on the sabbath day to the banks of the Jordan.
44
And Jonathan said to those with him, "Let us rise up now and fight for our lives, for today things are not as they were before.
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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.
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Cry out now to Heaven that you may be delivered from the hands of our enemies."
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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.