30 Now therefore we have chosen you today to be our ruler and leader in his place, to fight our battle.”
31 From that moment Jonathan accepted the leadership, and took the place of Judas his brother.
32 When Bacchides learned of it, he sought to kill him.
33 But Jonathan and his brother Simon and all who were with him discovered this, and they fled to the wilderness of Tekoa and camped by the waters of the pool of Asphar. [
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35 Jonathan sent his brother as leader of the convoy to implore his friends, the Nabateans, to let them deposit with them their great quantity of baggage.
36 But the tribe of Jambri from Medaba made a raid and seized and carried off John and everything he had.