1 Maccabees 9:37-43

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁷ After these things it was reported to Jonathan and Simon his brother, “The sons of Jambri are celebrating a great wedding, and are conducting the bride, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan, from Nad′abath^[a] with a large escort.” ³⁸ And they remembered the blood of John their brother, and went up and hid under cover of the mountain. ³⁹ They raised their eyes and looked, and saw a tumultuous procession with much baggage; and the bridegroom came out with his friends and his brothers to meet them with tambourines and musicians and many weapons. ⁴⁰ Then they rushed upon them from the ambush and began killing them. Many were wounded and fell, and the rest fled to the mountain; and they took all their goods. ⁴¹ Thus the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge. ⁴² And when they had fully avenged the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan.

⁴³ When Bac′chides heard of this, he came with a large force on the sabbath day to the banks of the Jordan.