1 Maccabees 9:47
“With that they ioyned battel, and Ionathan stretched foorth his hand to smite Bacchides, but hee turned backe from him.”
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1 Maccabees 9:47 Context
45For behold, the battell is before vs and behinde vs, and the water of Iordan on this side and that side, the marish likewise and wood, neither is there place for vs to turne aside. 46Wherefore cry ye now vnto heauen, that ye may be deliuered from the hand of your enemies. 47With that they ioyned battel, and Ionathan stretched foorth his hand to smite Bacchides, but hee turned backe from him. 48Then Ionathan and they that were with him, leapt into Iordan, and swamme ouer vnto the farther banke: howbeit the other passed not ouer Iordan vnto them. 49So there were slaine of Bacchides side that day about a thousand men
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With that they joined battle, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to smite Bacchides, but he turned back from him.
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