1 Maccabees 9:31-33

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³¹ So Jonathan took upon him the government at that time, and rose up in the place of Judas his brother.

³² And Bacchides had knowledge of it, and sought to kill him.

³³ And Jonathan and Simon his brother, knew it, and all that were with them: and they fled into the desert of Thecua, and they pitched by the water of the lake of Asphar,