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1 Maccabees 5:23-25
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 5:23-25
New Catholic Bible
23 Then he took back with him the Jews who were in Galilee and Arbatta,[a] with their wives and children and all their possessions, and he brought them to Judea with great rejoicing.
24 Meanwhile, Judas Maccabeus and his brother Jonathan crossed the Jordan and journeyed for three days through the desert. 25 There they encountered some Nabateans[b] who received them peacefully and reported to them everything that had happened to their kindred in Gilead:
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- 1 Maccabees 5:23 Arbatta: a site near the Sea of Galilee or the Arabah depression south of the Dead Sea (Deut 1:7; Jos 11:16).
- 1 Maccabees 5:25 Nabateans: a people of Arabic or Aramaic origin established southwest of Palestine; they became rich and powerful as caravaners moving commerce from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and controlling all of the Transjordan as far as Damascus. It was a Nabatean governor from whom St. Paul escaped about A.D. 38 (2 Cor 11:32f).
