37 After these events, it was reported to Jonathan and his brother Simon that the sons of Jambri were having a great marriage celebration, and that they would be leading the bride, a daughter of one of the great leaders of Canaan, out of Medeba with great fanfare.
38 And they remembered the blood of John, their brother. And they went up and hid themselves under the cover of the mountain.
39 And they lifted up their eyes and saw. And behold, a tumult and a well-prepared multitude. And the bridegroom proceeded, with his friends and his brothers, to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments, and many weapons.
40 And they rose up against them out of ambush, and they killed them, and there fell many wounded, and the remainder fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils.
41 And the marriage celebration was turned into mourning, and the voice of their musical instruments into lamentation.
42 And they took revenge for the blood of their brother, and they returned to the bank of the Jordan.
43 And Bacchides heard about this, and he came on the day of the Sabbath all the way to the coast of the Jordan, with a great force.