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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:
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Where they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold, there was much ado and great carriage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and brethren, to meet them with drums, and instruments of musick, and many weapons.
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Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a slaughter of them in such sort, as 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 again to the marsh of Jordan.
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Now when Bacchides heard hereof, he came on the sabbath day unto the banks of Jordan with a 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 to day, as in time past:
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For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and the water of Jordan on this side and that side, the marsh likewise and wood, neither is there place for us to turn aside.
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Wherefore cry ye now unto heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies.