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36 However, the sons of Jambri made a sortie from Medeba,[a] 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.” 38 Remembering how their brother John had been slain, they went up and hid themselves under the cover of a mountain.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Maccabees 9:36 Medeba was located northeast of the Dead Sea.