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The Jews rushed down on them from their ambush and killed them, inflicting heavy casualties; the survivors escaped to the mountain, leaving their entire baggage train to be captured. (1 Maccabees 9, 40)
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)
Jonathan said to his men, 'Up! Let us fight for our lives, for today it is not as in the old days. (1 Maccabees 9, 44)
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)
Bacchides went back to Jerusalem and began fortifying some of the Judaean towns: the fortresses of Jericho, Emmaus, Beth-Horon, Bethel, Timnath, Pharathon and Tephon, with high walls and barred gates, (1 Maccabees 9, 50)
He also fortified the town of Beth-Zur, Gezer and the Citadel, and placed troops in them with supplies of provisions. (1 Maccabees 9, 52)
In the year 153, in the second month, Alcimus ordered the demolition of the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary, destroying the work of the prophets. Alcimus had just begun the demolition (1 Maccabees 9, 54)
when he suffered a stroke, and his work was interrupted. His mouth became obstructed, and his paralysis made him incapable of speaking at all or giving directions to his household; (1 Maccabees 9, 55)
it was not long before he died in great agony. (1 Maccabees 9, 56)
On the death of Alcimus, Bacchides went back to the king, and Judaea was left in peace for two years. (1 Maccabees 9, 57)
