From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus

wounded with a dart.
5. Now as Antigonus had a mind to appear to exceed Herod, not only in
the courage, but in the number of his men, he sent Pappus, one of his
companions, with an army against Samaria, whose fortune it was to oppose
Macheras; but Herod overran the enemy's country, and demolished five little
cities, and destroyed two thousand men that were in them, and burned their
houses, and then returned to his camp; but his head-quarters were at the
village called Cana.
6. Now a great multitude of Jews resorted to him every day, both out of
Jericho and the other parts of the country. Some were moved so to do out of
their hatred to Antigonus, and some out of regard to the glorious actions
Herod had done; but others were led on by an unreasonable desire of change;
so he fell upon them immediately. As for Pappus and his party, they were not
terrified either at their number or at their zeal, but marched out with great
alacrity to fight them; and it came to a close fight. Now other parts of their
army made resistance for a while; but Herod, running the utmost hazard, out
of the rage he was in at the murder of his brother, that he might be avenged
on those that had been the authors of it, soon beat those that opposed him;
and after he had beaten them, he always turned his force against those that
stood to it still, and pursued them all; so that a great slaughter was made,
while some were forced back into that village whence they came out; he also
pressed hard upon the hindermost, and slew a vast number of them; he also
fell into the village with the enemy, where every house was filled with armed
men, and the upper rooms were crowded above with soldiers for their
defense; and when he had beaten those that were on the outside, he pulled
the houses to pieces, and plucked out those that were within; upon many he
had the roofs shaken down, whereby they perished by heaps; and as for those
that fled out of the ruins, the soldiers received them with their swords in their
hands; and the multitude of those slain and lying on heaps was so great, that
the conquerors could not pass along the roads. Now the enemy could not
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