And Bacchides heard it, and he came on the sabbath day even to the bank of the Jordan, with a great power. 44And Jonathan said to his company: Let us arise, and fight against our enemies: for it is not now as yesterday, and the day before. 45For behold the battle is before us, and the water of the Jordan on this side and on that side, and banks, and marshes, and woods: and there is no place for us to turn aside. 46Now, therefore, cry ye to heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies. And they joined battle. 47And Jonathan stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides, but he turned away from him backwards. 48And Jonathan, and they that were with him, leapt into the Jordan, and swam over the Jordan to them. 49And there fell of Bacchides' side that day a thousand men: and they returned to Jerusalem,