1 Maccabees 9:33-35

Common English Bible

³³ But Jonathan, his brother Simon, and all those with him heard about it and fled into the Tekoa wilderness. They camped beside the water of the pool of Asphar. ³⁴ Bacchides found out about this on a Sabbath day, and he and his army crossed the Jordan River.

³⁵ Jonathan sent his brother John, as leader of a large contingent, to beg his friends the Nabateans for permission to store with them the large amount of baggage that they had.