1 Maccabees 5:24
“Against those who were hindering the captive Jews in the region of Gilead, Judas Maccabeus and his brother Jonathan, having been sent with their companions, crossed the Jordan and went a three days' journey through the desert. In the same way, holy preachers, sent into the world to summon people to the faith of Christ…”
Source: Septuagint
24Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over Jordan, and traveled three days’ journey in the wilderness,
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22And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils he took.
23And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away with him, and brought them into Judea with great joy.
— 1 Maccabees 5:24 —
25where they met with the Nabateans, who came unto them in a peaceable manner, and told them everything that had happened to their brethren in the land of Gilead:
26and how that many of them were shut up in Bozrah, and Bosor, and Alema, Chaspho, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great: