1 Maccabees 9:42
“So when they had auenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned againe to the marish of Iordan.”
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1 Maccabees 9:42 Context
40Then Ionathan and they that were with him, rose vp against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a slaughter of them in such sort, as many fell downe dead, and the remnant fledde into the mountaine, and they tooke all their spoiles. 41Thus was the mariage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation. 42So when they had auenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned againe to the marish of Iordan. 43Now when Bacchides heard hereof, hee came on the Sabbath day vnto the banks of Iordan with a great power. 44Then Ionathan sayde to his company, Let vs goe vp now and fight for our liues, for it standeth not with vs to day, as in time past:
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So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned again to the marsh of Jordan.
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