35. And Jonathan sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might leave with them their baggage, which was much.
36. And the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.
37. But after these things they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri were making a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.
38. And they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:
39. and they lifted up their eyes, and saw, and, behold, a great ado and much baggage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and his brethren, to meet them with timbrels, and minstrels, and many weapons.
40. And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.
41. And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation.
42. And they avenged fully the blood of their brother, and turned back to the marsh of Jordan
43. And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the Sabbath day to the banks of Jordan with a great host.
44. And Jonathan said to his company, Let us stand up now and fight for our lives, for it is not with us today, as yesterday and the day before.
45. For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us; moreover the water of the Jordan is on this side and on that side, and marsh and wood; and there is no place to turn aside.