Difference between revisions of "Jambri"

<p> <strong> [[Jambri]] </strong> . A robber tribe which attacked and captured a convoy under the charge of John the Maccabee. The outrage was avenged by [[Jonathan]] and Simon, who waylaid and slaughtered a large party of the ‘sons of Jambri’ ( 1Ma 9:35-42 ). </p>

<p> [[Shortly]] after the death of [[Judas]] Maccabatus (B.C. 161), "the children of Jambri" are said to have made a predatory attack on a detachment of the Maccabean forces, and to have suffered reprisals (&nbsp;1 [[Maccabees]] 9:36-41). The name does not occur elsewhere, and the variety of readings is considerable: Ι᾿αμβρί, Ι᾿αμβρεϊ v ν, Ἀμβροί, Ἀμβρί; Syr. ''Ambrei.'' [[Josephus]] ''(.At. 13:'' 1, 2) read οί αιου παῖδες, and it seems almost certain that the true reading is Ἀμρί (-εί ), a form which occurs elsewhere (&nbsp;1 Kings 16:22; Joseph. Ant. 8:12 5, Ἀμαρῖνος; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 27:18, Heb. עָמְרַי,Yulcg. ''Atmri;'' &nbsp;1 Chronicles 9:4, Ἀμβραϊ v μ, i.e. Amorites. </p> <p> It has been conjectured (Drusius, Michaelis, Grimm, &nbsp;1 Maccabees 9:36) that the original text was בני אמורי, "the sons of the Amorites," and that the reference is to a family of the [[Amorites]] who had in early times occupied the town [[Medeba]] (&nbsp;1 Maccabees 9:36), on the borders of [[Reuben]] (&nbsp;Numbers 21:30-31). </p>