1 Maccabees 9:35-37

New Catholic Bible

³⁵ Jonathan sent his brother^[a] to act as leader of the multitude and to ask the Nabateans, with whom he was friendly, for permission to store with them the great quantity of baggage that they had brought with them. ³⁶ However, the sons of Jambri made a sortie from Medeba,^[b] captured John, and carried off the baggage. ³⁷ Some time afterward the news was reported to Jonathan and his brother Simon: “The sons of Jambri are celebrating a great wedding, and with a large retinue they are escorting from Nadabath the daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan.”