1 Maccabees 5:23-25

Common English Bible

²³ Then he took the Jews of Galilee and Arbatta, together with their wives and children and all they owned, and led them to Judea with great rejoicing.

Judas and Jonathan in Gilead

²⁴ Judas Maccabeus and his brother Jonathan crossed the Jordan and traveled for three days into the wilderness. ²⁵ They encountered the Nabateans, who greeted them in peace and related all that had happened to their people in Gilead: