1 Maccabees 5:23-25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
23 He took with him the Jews who were in Galilee and in Arbatta,[a] with their wives and children and all that they had, and brought them to Judea with great rejoicing.
24 (A)Judas Maccabeus and his brother Jonathan crossed the Jordan and marched for three days through the wilderness. 25 There they met some Nabateans,[b] who received them peaceably and told them all that had happened to their kindred in Gilead:
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- 5:23 Arbatta: (or, Narbatta), probably south of Mount Carmel.
- 5:25 Nabateans: an Arab people who acquired wealth and power as caravan merchants in the final two centuries B.C. They established Petra as their capital and for a time controlled all of Transjordan, even as far as Damascus. It was from a Nabatean governor of Damascus that Paul escaped (2 Cor 11:32–33).
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