27. And there was great tribulation in Israel, such as was not since the time that no prophet appeared to them.
28. And all the friends of Judas were gathered together, and they said to Jonathan,
29. Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and among them of our nation that hate us.
30. Now therefore we have chosen you this day to be our prince and leader in his stead, that you may fight our battles.
31. And Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up in the stead of his brother Judas.
32. And Bacchides knew it, and he sought to kill him.
33. And Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool Asphar.