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1 Maccabees 9:36 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and seized John and all that he had, and went their way with it. "

1 Maccabees 9:36

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34 Bacchides found this out on the Sabbath day, and came—he and all his army—over the Jordan.

35 Jonathan sent his brother, a leader of the multitude, and implored his friends the Nabathaeans, that they might store their baggage, which was much, with them.

36 The children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and seized John and all that he had, and went their way with it.

37 But after these things, they brought word to Jonathan and Simon his brother that the children of Jambri were celebrating a great wedding, and were bringing the bride, a daughter of one of the great nobles of Canaan, from Nadabath with a large escort.

38 They remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the cover of the mountain.

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1 Maccabees 9:1

"Demetrius heard that Nicanor had fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them."

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