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93,.,.,,.94,.95.,.,,,.Translation by William Whiston93Yet did
Alexander meet both these forces with one thousand horsemen, and
eight thousand mercenaries that were on foot. He had also with him
that part of the Jews which favored him, to the number of ten
thousand; while the adverse party had three thousand horsemen, and
fourteen thousand footmen. Now, before they joined battle, the
kings made proclamation, and endeavored to draw off each other's
soldiers, and make them revolt; while Demetrius hoped to induce
Alexander's mercenaries to leave him, and Alexander hoped to induce
the Jews that were with Demetrius to leave him. But since neither
the Jews would leave off their rage, nor the Greeks prove
unfaithful, they came to an engagement, and to a close fight with
their weapons. In which battle Demetrius was the conqueror,
although Alexander's mercenaries showed the greatest exploits, both
in soul and body. Yet did the upshot of this battle prove different
from what was expected, as to both of them; for neither did those
that invited Demetrius to come to them continue firm to him, though
he was conqueror; and six thousand Jews, out of pity to the change
of Alexander's condition, when he was fled to the mountains, came
over to him. Yet could not Demetrius bear this turn of affairs; but
supposing that Alexander was already become a match for him again,
and that all the nation would [at length] run to him, he left the
country, and went his
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411,.412,,,413,,.414,.415,,.416,,.411Hereupon the men of power
got together, and conferred with the high priests, as did also the
principal of the Pharisees; and thinking all was at stake, and that
their calamities were becoming incurable, took counsel what was to
be done. Accordingly, they determined to try what they could do
with the seditious by words, and assembled the people before the
brazen gate, which was that gate of the inner temple [court of the
priests] which looked toward the sun-rising. And, in the first
place, they showed the great indignation they had at this attempt
for a revolt, and for their bringing so great a war upon their
country; after which they confuted their pretense as unjustifiable,
and told them that their forefathers had adorned their temple in
great part with donations bestowed on them by foreigners, and had
always received what had been presented to them from foreign
nations; and that they had been so far from rejecting any person's
sacrifice (which would be the highest instance of impiety,) that
they had themselves placed those donation about the temple which
were still visible, and had remained there so long a time; that
they did now irritate the Romans to take arms against them, and
invited them to make war upon them, and brought up novel rules of a
strange Divine worship, and determined to run the hazard of having
their city condemned for impiety, while they would not allow any
foreigner, but Jews only, either to sacrifice or to worship
therein. And if such a law should be introduced in the case of a
single private person only, he would have indignation at it, as an
instance of inhumanity determined against him; while they have no
regard to the Romans or to Caesar, and forbid even their oblations
to be received also; that however they cannot but fear, lest, by
thus rejecting their sacrifices, they shall not be allowed to offer
their own; and that this city will lose its principality, unless
they grow wiser quickly, and restore the sacrifices as formerly,
and indeed amend the injury [they have offered foreigners] before
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516,,.517,,,.518.519,,.520,.521,..516The country also that lies
over against this lake hath the same name of Gennesareth; its
nature is wonderful as well as its beauty; its soil is so fruitful
that all sorts of trees can grow upon it, and the inhabitants
accordingly plant all sorts of trees there; for the temper of the
air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with those several
sorts, particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air,
flourish there in vast plenty; there are palm trees also, which
grow best in hot air; fig trees also and olives grow near them,
which yet require an air that is more temperate. One may call this
place the ambition of nature, where it forces those plants that are
naturally enemies to one another to agree together; it is a happy
contention of the seasons, as if every one of them laid claim to
this country; for it not only nourishes different sorts of autumnal
fruit beyond men's expectation, but preserves them a great while;
it supplies men with the principal fruits, with grapes and figs
continually, during ten months of the year19and the rest of the
fruits as they become ripe together through the whole year; for
besides the good temperature of the air, it is also watered from a
most fertile fountain. The people of the country call it
Capharnaum. Some have thought it to be a vein of theNile, because
it produces the Coracin fish as well as that lake does which is
near toAlexandria. The length of this country extends itself along
the banks of this lake that bears the same name for thirty
furlongs, and is in breadth twenty, And this is the nature of that
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296Now these towers were very troublesome to the Jews, who
otherwise opposed the Romans very courageously; for they shot at
them out of their lighter engines from those towers, as they did
also by those that threw darts, and the archers, and those that
flung stones. For neither could the Jews reach those that were over
them, by reason of their height; and it was not practicable to take
them, nor to overturn them, they were so heavy, nor to set them on
fire, because they were covered with plates of iron. So they
retired out of the reach of the darts, and did no longer endeavor
to hinder the impression of their rams, which, by continually
beating upon the wall, did gradually prevail against it; so that
the wall already gave way to the Nico, for by that name did the
Jews themselves call the greatest of their engines, because it
conquered all things. And now they were for a long while grown
weary of fighting, and of keeping guards, and were retired to lodge
in the night time at a distance from the wall. It was on other
accounts also thought by them to be superfluous to guard the wall,
there being besides that two other fortifications still remaining,
and they being slothful, and their counsels having been ill
concerted on all occasions; so a great many grew lazy and retired.
Then the Romans mounted the breach, where Nico had made one, and
all the Jews left the guarding that wall, and retreated to the
second wall; so those that had gotten over that wall opened the
gates, and received all the army within it. And thus did the Romans
get possession of this first wall, on the fifteenth day of the
siege, which was the seventh day of the month Artemisius, [Jyar,]
when they demolished a great part of it, as well as they did of the
northern parts of the city, which had been demolished also by
Cestius
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now, since Caesar was no way able to restrain the enthusiastic fury
of the soldiers, and the fire proceeded on more and more, he went
into the holy place of the temple, with his commanders, and saw it,
with what was in it, which he found to be far superior to what the
relations of foreigners contained, and not inferior to what we
ourselves boasted of and believed about it. But as the flame had
not as yet reached to its inward parts, but was still consuming the
rooms that were about the holy house, and Titus supposing what the
fact was, that the house itself might yet he saved, he came in
haste and endeavored to persuade the soldiers to quench the fire,
and gave order to Liberalius the centurion, and one of those
spearmen that were about him, to beat the soldiers that were
refractory with their staves, and to restrain them; yet were their
passions too hard for the regards they had for Caesar, and the
dread they had of him who forbade them, as was their hatred of the
Jews, and a certain vehement inclination to fight them, too hard
for them also. Moreover, the hope of plunder induced many to go on,
as having this opinion, that all the places within were full of
money, and as seeing that all round about it was made of gold. And
besides, one of those that went into the place prevented Caesar,
when he ran so hastily out to restrain the soldiers, and threw the
fire upon the hinges of the gate, in the dark; whereby the flame
burst out from within the holy house itself immediately, when the
commanders retired, and Caesar with them, and when nobody any
longer forbade those that were without to set fire to it. And thus
was the holy house burnt down, without Caesar's
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439,.440,,.441.442.
Was a potent man among the Canaanites, and is in our own tongue
called [Melchisedek], the Righteous King, for such he really was;
on which account he was [there] the first priest of God, and first
built a temple [there], and called the cityJerusalem, which was
formerly called Salem. However, David, the king of the Jews,
ejected the Canaanites, and set-tied his own people therein. It was
demolished entirely by the Babylonians, four hundred and
seventy-seven years and six months after him. And from king David,
who was the first of the Jews who reigned therein, to this
destruction under Titus, were one thousand one hundred and
seventy-nine years; but from its first building, till this last
destruction, were two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years;
yet hath not its great antiquity, nor its vast riches, nor the
diffusion of its nation over all the habitable earth, nor the
greatness of the veneration paid to it on a religious account, been
sufficient to preserve it from being destroyed. And thus ended the
siege
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331After this he marched through Jericho, as making what haste
he could to be avenged on his brother's murderers; where happened
to him a providential sign, out of which, when he had unexpectedly
escaped, he had the reputation of being very dear to God; for that
evening there feasted with him many of the principal men; and after
that feast was over, and all the guests were gone out, the house
fell down immediately. And as he judged this to be a common signal
of what dangers he should undergo, and how he should escape them in
the war that he was going about, he, in the morning, set forward
with his army, when about six thousand of his enemies came running
down from the mountains, and began to fight with those in his
forefront; yet durst they not be so very bold as to engage the
Romans hand to hand, but threw stones and darts at them at a
distance; by which means they wounded a considerable number; in
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