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About the same time one came to Jonathan, and to his brother Simon,
and told them that the sons of Ambri were celebrating a marriage, and bringing
the bride from the city Gabatha, who was the daughter of one of the illustrious
men among the Arabians, and that the damsel was to be conducted with pomp,
and splendor, and much riches: so Jonathan and Simon thinking this appeared
to be the fittest time for them to avenge the death of their brother, and
that they had forces sufficient for receiving satisfaction from them for
his death, they made haste to Medaba, and lay in wait among the mountains
for the coming of their enemies; and as soon as they saw them conducting
the virgin, and her bridegroom, and such a great company of their friends
with them as was to be expected at this wedding, they sallied out of their
ambush, and slew them all, and took their ornaments, and all the prey that
then followed them, and so returned, and received this satisfaction for
their brother John from the sons of Ambri; for as well those sons themselves,
as their friends, and wives, and children that followed them, perished,
being in number about four hundred.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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