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• Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back? (Psalms 114, 5)

• He left Lysias, a nobleman of royal blood, in charge of the king's affairs from the Euphrates River to the frontier of Egypt, (1 Maccabees 3, 32)

• The king took the remaining half of the army and set out from Antioch, his capital, in the year one hundred and forty-seven; he crossed the Euphrates River and advanced inland. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)

• Judas Maccabeus and his brother Jonathan crossed the Jordan and marched for three days through the desert. (1 Maccabees 5, 24)

• But if he is afraid and camps on the other side of the river, we will cross over to him and defeat him." (1 Maccabees 5, 41)

• Then they crossed the Jordan to the great plain in front of Beth-shan; (1 Maccabees 5, 52)

• Having taken their revenge for the blood of their brother, the Jews returned to the marshes of the Jordan. (1 Maccabees 9, 42)

• When Bacchides heard of it, he came on the sabbath to the banks of the Jordan with a large force. (1 Maccabees 9, 43)

• The battle is before us, and behind us are the waters of the Jordan on one side, marsh and thickets on the other, and there is no way of escape. (1 Maccabees 9, 45)

• Jonathan and his men jumped into the Jordan and swam across to the other side, but the enemy did not pursue them across the Jordan. (1 Maccabees 9, 48)

• Jonathan accompanied the king as far as the river called Eleutherus and then returned to Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 11, 7)

• Then Jonathan pursued them, but he could not overtake them, for they had crossed the river Eleutherus. (1 Maccabees 12, 30)