1 Maccabees 9:38
Good News Translation
Jonathan and Simon had wanted revenge for the death of their brother John, so they and their men went up on one of the mountains and hid.

New Revised Standard Version
Remembering how their brother John had been killed, they went up and hid under cover of the mountain.

Contemporary English Version
Meanwhile, Jonathan and Simon had learned that this tribe had murdered their brother John. So they left camp and set an ambush on a hillside overlooking the road.

New American Bible
Remembering the blood of John their brother, they went up and hid themselves under cover of the mountain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they remembered the blood of John, their brother: and they went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they remembered the blood of John, their brother: and they went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain.

1 Maccabees 9:36
And the children of Jambri came forth out of Madaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went away with them.

1 Maccabees 9:37
After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan, with great pomp.

1 Maccabees 9:39
And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and many weapons.

1 Maccabees 9:40
And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils:

Context
1 Maccabees 9
37After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan, with great pomp. 38And they remembered the blood of John, their brother: and they went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain. 39And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and many weapons.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 9:36
And the children of Jambri came forth out of Madaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went away with them.

1 Maccabees 9:37
After this it was told Jonathan, and Simon, his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride out of Madaba, the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan, with great pomp.

1 Maccabees 9:39
And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments and many weapons.

1 Maccabees 9:40
And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils:



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1 Maccabees 9:37
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