1 Maccabees 9:33-35

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³³ And Jonathan and Simon his brother, knew it, and all that were with them: and they fled into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by the water of the lake of Asphar,

³⁴ And Bacchides understood it, and he came himself with all his army over the Jordan on the sabbath day.

³⁵ And Jonathan sent his brother a captain of the people, to desire the Nabutheans his friends, that they would lend them their equipage, which was copious.