1 Maccabees 9:33-35

Good News Translation

³³ But when this news reached Jonathan, he fled, with his brother Simon and their men, to the wilderness of Tekoa and set up camp at the pool of Asphar. ( ³⁴ Bacchides learned about this on the Sabbath and crossed the Jordan with his whole army.^[a]) ³⁵ Jonathan sent his brother John, who was responsible for the soldiers' families, to ask the Nabateans, with whom he was on friendly terms, for permission to store with them the large amount of baggage they had.