39
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.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.