Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 9:34
A church father on this verse
“What does it mean that Bacchides came with his army against the Jews on the sabbath day across the Jordan, if not that the persecutors of Christians, envying the peace and serenity of the Church, strive, by breaking in with tumult, to disturb the sacrament of baptism and to overturn the condition of the faith? For thi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
34Which when Bacchides understood, he came near to Jordan with all his host upon the Sabbath day.
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32But when Bacchides got knowledge thereof, he sought for to slay him.
33Then Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, perceiving that, fled into the wilderness of Tekoa, and pitched their tents by the water of the pool Asphar.
— 1 Maccabees 9:34 —
35Now Jonathan had sent his brother John, a captain of the people, to pray his friends the Nabateans, that they might leave with them their carriage, which was much.
36But the children of Jambri came out of Medeba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.