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They then crossed the Jordan into the Great Plain, opposite Beth-Shean, (1 Maccabees 5, 52)
(Bacchides came to know of this on the Sabbath day, and he too crossed the Jordan with his entire army.) (1 Maccabees 9, 34)
Having in this way avenged in full the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan. (1 Maccabees 9, 42)
As soon as Bacchides heard this, he came on the Sabbath day with a considerable force to the steep banks of the Jordan. (1 Maccabees 9, 43)
You can see, we shall have to fight on our front and to our rear; we have the waters of the Jordan on one side, the marsh and scrub on the other, and we have no line of withdrawal. (1 Maccabees 9, 45)
whereupon Jonathan and his men leapt into the Jordan and swam to the other bank; the enemy did not, however, cross the Jordan in pursuit. (1 Maccabees 9, 48)
Jonathan accompanied the king as far as the river called Eleutherus, and then returned to Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 11, 7)
and although Jonathan pursued them, he failed to overtake them, for they had already crossed the river Eleutherus. (1 Maccabees 12, 30)
Whereas their enemies had only the ever-flowing source of a river fouled with mingled blood and mud, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 6)
For they still remembered the events of their exile, how the land had bred mosquitoes instead of animals and the River had disgorged millions of frogs instead of fish. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 10)
Do not be ashamed to confess your sins, do not struggle against the current of the river. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 26)
what makes intelligence overflow like the Euphrates, like the Jordan at harvest time; (Ecclesiasticus 24, 26)
