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into the mountainous parts. He then took Bethsura, which was a small city; but at a place called Bethzacharis, where the passage was narrow, Judas met him with his army. However, before the forces joined battle, Judas's brother Eleazar, seeing the very highest of the elephants adorned with a large tower, and with military trappings of gold to guard him, and supposing that Antiochus himself was upon him, he ran a great way before his own army, and cutting his way through the enemy's troops, he got up to the elephant; yet could he not reach him who seemed to be the king, by reason of his being so high; but still he ran his weapon into the belly of the beast, and brought him down upon himself, and was crushed to death, having done no more than attempted great things, and showed that he preferred glory before life. Now he that governed the elephant was but a private man; and had he proved to be Antiochus, Eleazar had performed nothing more by this bold stroke than that it might appear he chose to die, when he had the bare hope of thereby doing a glorious action; nay, this disappointment proved an omen to his brother [Judas] how the entire battle would end. It is true that the Jews fought it out bravely for a long time, but the king's forces, being superior in number, and having fortune on their side, obtained the victory. And when a great many of his men were slain, Judas took the rest with him, and fled to the toparchy of Gophna. So Antiochus went to Jerusalem, and staid there but a few days, for he wanted provisions, and so he went his way. He left indeed a garrison behind him, such as he thought sufficient to keep the place, but drew the rest of his army off, to take their winter-quarters in Syria. 6. Now, after the king was departed, Judas was not idle; for as many of his own nation came to him, so did he gather those that had escaped out of the battle together, and gave battle again to Antiochus's generals at a village called Adasa; and being too hard for his enemies in the battle, and killing a great number of them, he was at last himself slain also. Nor was it many days afterward that his brother John had a plot laid against him by Antiochus's party, and was slain by them. 3
Footnote: 1. I see little difference in the several accounts in Josephus about the Egyptian temple Onion, of which large complaints are made by his commentators. Onias, it seems, hoped to have :made it very like that at Jerusalem, and of the same dimensions; and so he appears to have really done, as far as he was able and thought proper. Of this temple, see Antiq. B. XIII. ch. 3. sect. 1--3, and Of the War, B. VII. ch. 10. sect. 8. 4
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Page 13 and 14: a brother slain! How long shall I m
Page 15 and 16: country, together with the Gileadir
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Page 19 and 20: Chapter 5 The Time the Pharisees We
Page 21 and 22: as the other cities, Sebaste and Ag
Page 23 and 24: Hyrcanus was treated unjustly, by b
Page 25 and 26: low. However, Pompey commanded him
Page 27 and 28: Chapter 7 Pompey Took the Temple by
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Page 31 and 32: Chapter 8 Alexander Makes an Expedi
Page 33 and 34: aristocracy. He also parted the who
Page 35 and 36: Judea; and, upon his taking Tariche
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Page 41 and 42: sung in Herod's commendation, both
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Page 45 and 46: Chapter 11 Herod Is Made Procurator
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Page 51 and 52: took fifteen of them, and put them
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egged of him that he would not go o
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11. This was the death of Phasaelus
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eturned back, and went for Egypt. N
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Chapter 15 Antigonus Besieges Those
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guards that were there shot their a
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Chapter 16 Herod Goes to Antony as
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father of seven children, whose chi
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Josephus, has coins still remaining
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ut Sosius sent two legions before h
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ear this blow, so that when the mul
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Chapter 18 Herod and Sosius Took Je
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their commanders, and with a most r
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Chapter 19 Antony Sent Herod to Fig
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accidental misfortunes, than that t
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y the Jews, and a great many by the
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Chapter 20 Herod Is Confirmed in hi
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addition to his kingdom, by giving
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Chapter 21 The Temple That Were Bui
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6. Now although the place where he
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up the remaining space with the mos
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failed, he was not himself the occa
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Chapter 22 The Murder of Aristobulu
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4. When therefore he was about to t
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Chapter 23 Calumnies Against the So
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and was much pleased at their recon
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B. XV. p. 671. Stephanus of Byzanti
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or said. Thus did he act a part ver
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4. Now upon these accounts, though
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time would avenge himself on his en
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Chapter 25 Reconciliation Between A
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4. With this advice Pheroras compli
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Chapter 26 How Eurycles Calumniated
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provoke him so to do, insomuch that
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clearing those miserable creatures;
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together. The presidents sat first,
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should be no longer tortured]. When
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which children are recommended to m
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Alexas, a friend of his, and that o
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and particularly of the affronts sh
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Footnotes: 1. These daughters of He
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accordingly by agreement they went
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then it was that he called me to hi
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furniture, he might conceal the mon
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any discovery had been made, perhap
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which I showed him, he made use of
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thee! Yet was I absent, father, on
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Salome contained, a suspicion came
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the mean-spirited, and those that w
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will weep at it, whether they will
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domestic servants and freed-men fol
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