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by Flavius Josephus
Translated by William Whiston
The Bible Unearthed: The
Making of a Religion, directed by Thierry Ragobert
Letting Go of God, by Julia
Sweeney Table of
Contents:
- PREFACE
- BOOK 1. Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand
Eight Hundred And Thirty-Three Years. — From The Creation To The
Death Of Isaac.
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CHAPTER 1. The Constitution Of The World And The
Disposition Of The Elements.
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CHAPTER 2. Concerning The Posterity Of Adam, And
The Ten Generations From Him To The Deluge.
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CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Flood; And After What
Manner Noah Was Saved In An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards
Dwelt In The Plain Of Shinar.
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CHAPTER 4. Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And
The Confusion Of Tongues.
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CHAPTER 5. After What Manner The Posterity Of
Noah Sent Out Colonies, And Inhabited The Whole Earth.
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CHAPTER 6. How Every Nation Was Denominated From
Their First Inhabitants.
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CHAPTER 7. How Abram Our Forefather Went Out Of
The Land Of The Chaldeans, And Lived In The Land Then Called Canaan
But Now Judea.
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CHAPTER 8. That When There Was A Famine In
Canaan, Abram Went Thence Into Egypt; And After He Had Continued
There A While He Returned Back Again.
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CHAPTER 9.
The Destruction Of The Sodomites By
The Assyrian Wall.
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CHAPTER 10. How Abram Fought With The Assyrians,
And Overcame Them, And Saved The Sodomite Prisoners, And Took From
The Assyrians The Prey They Had Gotten.
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CHAPTER 11. How God Overthrew The Nation Of The
Sodomites, Out Of His Wrath Against Them For Their Sins.
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CHAPTER 12. Concerning Abimelech; And Concerning
Ismael The Son Of Abraham; And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His
Posterity.
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CHAPTER 13.
Concerning Isaac The Legitimate Son
Of Abraham.
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CHAPTER 14. Concerning Sarah Abraham's Wife; And
How She Ended Her Days.
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CHAPTER 15. How The Nation Of The Troglodytes
Were Derived From Abraham By Keturah.
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CHAPTER 16. How Isaac Took Rebeka To Wife.
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CHAPTER 17. Concerning The Death Of Abraham.
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CHAPTER 18. Concerning The Sons Of Isaac, Esau
And Jacob; Of Their Nativity And Education.
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CHAPTER 19. Concerning Jacob's Flight Into
Mesopotamia, By Reason Of The Fear He Was In Of His Brother.
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CHAPTER 20. Concerning The Meeting Of Jacob And
Esau.
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CHAPTER 21. Concerning The Violation Of Dina's
Chastity.
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CHAPTER 22. How Isaac Died, And Was Buried In
Hebron.
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FOOTNOTES:
- BOOK 2. Containing The Interval Of Two Hundred
And Twenty Years.—From The Death Of Isaac To The Exodus Out Of
Egypt.
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CHAPTER 1. How Esau And Jacob, Isaac's Sons
Divided Their Habitation; And Esau Possessed Idumea And Jacob
Canaan.
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CHAPTER 2.
How Joseph, The Youngest Of Jacob's
Sons, Was Envied By His Brethren, When Certain Dreams Had Foreshown
His Future Happiness.
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CHAPTER 3. How Joseph Was Thus Sold By His
Brethren Into Egypt, By Reason Of Their Hatred To Him; And How He
There Grew Famous And Illustrious And Had His Brethren Under His
Power.
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CHAPTER 4. Concerning The Signal Chastity Of
Joseph.
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CHAPTER 5.
What Things Befell Joseph In Prison.
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CHAPTER 6. How Joseph When He Was Become Famous
In Egypt, Had His Brethren In Subjection.
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CHAPTER 7. The Removal Of Joseph's Father With
All His Family, To Him, On Account Of The Famine.
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CHAPTER 8. Of The Death Of Jacob And Joseph.
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CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Afflictions That Befell
The Hebrews In Egypt, During Four Hundred Years. [16]
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CHAPTER 10.
How Moses Made War With The
Ethiopians.
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CHAPTER 11. How Moses Fled Out Of Egypt Into Midian.
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CHAPTER 12. Concerning The Burning Bush And The
Rod Of Moses.
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CHAPTER 13. How Moses And Aaron Returned Into
Egypt To Pharaoh.
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CHAPTER 14.
Concerning The Ten Plagues Which Came
Upon The Egyptians.
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CHAPTER 15. How The Hebrews Under The Conduct Of
Moses Left Egypt.
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CHAPTER 16. How The Sea Was Divided Asunder For
The Hebrews, When They Were Pursued By The Egyptians, And So Gave
Them An Opportunity Of Escaping From Them.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 3. Containing The Interval Of Two
Years.—From The Exodus Out Of Egypt, To The Rejection Of That
Generation.
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CHAPTER 1. How Moses When He Had Brought The
People Out Of Egypt Led Them To Mount Sinai; But Not Till They Had
Suffered Much In Their Journey.
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CHAPTER 2. How The Amalekites And The
Neighbouring Nations, Made War With The Hebrews And Were Beaten And
Lost A Great Part Of Their Army.
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CHAPTER 3. That Moses Kindly Received-His
Father-In-Law, Jethro, When He Came To Him To Mount Sinai.
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CHAPTER 4. How Raguel Suggested To Moses To Set
His People In Order, Under Their Rulers Of Thousands, And Rulers Of
Hundreds, Who Lived Without Order Before; And How Moses Complied In
All Things With His Father-In-Law's Admonition.
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CHAPTER 5.
How Moses Ascended Up To Mount Sinai,
And Received Laws From God, And Delivered Them To The Hebrews.
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CHAPTER 6. Concerning The Tabernacle Which Moses
Built In The Wilderness For The Honor Of God And Which Seemed To Be
A Temple.
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CHAPTER 7. Concerning The Garments Of The
Priests, And Of The High Priest.
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CHAPTER 8. Of The Priesthood Of Aaron.
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CHAPTER 9. The Manner Of Our Offering Sacrifices.
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CHAPTER 10. Concerning The Festivals; And How
Each Day Of Such Festival Is To Be Observed.
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CHAPTER 11. Of The Purifications.
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CHAPTER 12. Several Laws.
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CHAPTER 13. Moses Removed From Mount Sinai, And
Conducted The People To The Borders Of The Canaanites.
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CHAPTER 14.
How Moses Sent Some Persons To Search
Out The Land Of The Canaanites, And The Largeness Of Their Cities;
And Further That When Those Who Were Sent Were Returned, After Forty
Days And Reported That They Should Not Be A Match For Them, And
Extolled The Strength Of The Canaanites The Multitude Were Disturbed
And Fell Into Despair; And Were Resolved To Stone Moses, And To
Return Back Again Into Egypt, And Serve The Egyptians.
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CHAPTER 15. How Moses Was Displeased At This, And
Foretold That God Was Angry And That They Should Continue In The
Wilderness For Forty Years And Not, During That Time, Either Return
Into Egypt Or Take Possession Of Canaan.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 4. Containing The Interval Of Thirty-Eight
Years.—From The Rejection Of That Generation To The Death Of Moses.
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CHAPTER 1. Fight Of The Hebrews With The
Canaanites Without The Consent Of Moses; And Their Defeat.
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CHAPTER 2. The Sedition Of Corah And Of The
Multitude Against Moses, And Against His Brother, Concerning The
Priesthood.
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CHAPTER 3. How Those That Stirred Up This
Sedition Were Destroyed, According To The Will Of God; And How
Aaron, Moses's Brother Both He And His Posterity, Retained The
Priesthood.
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CHAPTER 4. What Happened To The Hebrews During
Thirty-Eight Years In The Wilderness.
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CHAPTER 5.
How Moses Conquered Sihon And Og Kings
Of The Amorites, And Destroyed Their Whole Army And Then Divided
Their Land By Lot To Two Tribes And A Half Of The Hebrews.
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CHAPTER 6.
Concerning Balaam The Prophet And What
Kind Of Man He Was.
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CHAPTER 7. How The Hebrews Fought With The Midianites, And Overcame Them.
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CHAPTER 8. The Polity Settled By Moses; And How
He Disappeared From Among Mankind.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 5. Containing The Interval Of Four Hundred
And Seventy-Six Years.—From The Death Of Moses To The Death Of Eli.
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CHAPTER 1.
How Joshua, The Commander Of The
Hebrews, Made War With The Canaanites, And Overcame Them, And
Destroyed Them, And Divided Their Land By Lot To The Tribes Of
Israel.
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CHAPTER 2. How, After The Death Of Joshua Their
Commander, The Israelites Transgressed The Laws Of Their Country,
And Experienced Great Afflictions; And When There Was A Sedition
Arisen, The Tribe Of Benjamin Was Destroyed Excepting Only Six
Hundred Men.
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CHAPTER 3. How The Israelites After This
Misfortune Grew Wicked And Served The Assyrians; And How God
Delivered Them By Othniel, Who Ruled Over The Forty Years.
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CHAPTER 4. How Our People Served The Moabites
Eighteen Years, And Were Then Delivered From Slavery By One Ehud Who
Retained The Dominion Eighty Years.
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CHAPTER 5. How The Canaanites Brought The
Israelites Under Slavery For Twenty Years; After Which They Were
Delivered By Barak And Deborah, Who Ruled Over Them For Forty Years.
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CHAPTER 6.
How The Midianites And Other Nations
Fought Against The Israelites And Beat Them, And Afflicted Their
Country For Seven Years, How They Were Delivered By Gideon, Who
Ruled Over The Multitude For Forty Years.
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CHAPTER 7. That The Judges Who Succeeded Gideon
Made War With The Adjoining Nations For A Long Time.
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CHAPTER 8. Concerning The Fortitude Of Samson,
And What Mischiefs He Brought Upon The Philistines.
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CHAPTER 9.
How Under Eli's Government Of The
Israelites Booz Married Ruth, From Whom Came Obed The Grandfather Of
David.
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CHAPTER 10. Concerning The Birth Of Samuel; And
How He Foretold The Calamity That Befell The Sons Of Eli.
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CHAPTER 11. Herein Is Declared What Befell The
Sons Of Eli, The Ark, And The People And How Eli Himself Died
Miserably.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 6. Containing The Interval Of Thirty-Two
Years.—From The Death Of Eli To The Death Of Saul.
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CHAPTER 1. The Destruction That Came Upon The
Philistines, And Upon Their Land, By The Wrath Of Go On Account Of
Their Having Carried The Ark Away Captive; And After What Manner
They Sent It Back To The Hebrews.
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CHAPTER 2. The Expedition Of The Philistines
Against The Hebrews And The Hebrews' Victory Under The Conduct Of
Samuel The Prophet, Who Was Their General.
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CHAPTER 3. How Samuel When He Was So Infirm With
Old Age That He Could Not Take Care Of The Public Affairs Intrusted
Them To His Sons; And How Upon The Evil Administration Of The
Government By Them The Multitude Were So Angry, That They Required
To Have A King To Govern Them, Although Samuel Was Much Displeased
Thereat.
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CHAPTER 4. The Appointment Of A King Over The
Israelites, Whose Name Was Saul; And This By The Command Of God.
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CHAPTER 5. Saul's Expedition Against The Nation
Of The Ammonites And Victory Over Them And The Spoils He Took From
Them.
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CHAPTER 6.
How The Philistines Made Another
Expedition Against The Hebrews And Were Beaten.
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CHAPTER 7. Saul's War With The Amalekites, And
Conquest Of Them.
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CHAPTER 8. How, Upon Saul's Transgression Of The
Prophet's Commands, Samuel Ordained Another Person To Be King
Privately, Whose Name Was David, As God Commanded Him.
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CHAPTER 9. How The Philistines Made Another
Expedition Against The Hebrews Under The Reign Of Saul; And How They
Were Overcome By David's Slaying Goliath In Single Combat.
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CHAPTER 10.
Saul Envies David For His Glorious
Success, And Takes An Occasion Of Entrapping Him, From The Promise
He Made Him Of Giving Him His Daughter In Marriage; But This Upon
Condition Of His Bringing Him Six Hundred Heads Of The Philistines.
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CHAPTER 11.
How David, Upon Saul's Laying Snares
For Him, Did Yet Escape The Dangers He Was In By The Affection And
Care Of Jonathan And The Contrivances Of His Wife Michal: And How He
Came To Samuel The Prophet.
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CHAPTER 12. How David Fled To Ahimelech And
Afterwards To The Kings Of The Philistines And Of The Moabites, And
How Saul Slew Ahimelech And His Family.
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CHAPTER 13. How David, When He Had Twice The
Opportunity Of Killing Saul Did Not Kill Him. Also Concerning The
Death Of Samuel And Nabal.
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CHAPTER 14. Now Saul Upon God's Not Answering Him
Concerning The Fight With The Philistines Desired A Necromantic
Woman To Raise Up The Soul Of Samuel To Him; And How He Died, With
His Sons Upon The Overthrow Of The Hebrews In Battle.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 7.
Containing The Interval Of Forty
Years.—From The Death Of Saul To The Death Of David.
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CHAPTER 1.
How David Reigned Over One Tribe At
Hebron While The Son Of Saul Reigned Over The Rest Of The Multitude;
And How, In The Civil War Which Then Arose Asahel And Abner Were
Slain.
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CHAPTER 2. That Upon The Slaughter Of Ishbosheth
By The Treachery Of His Friends, David Received The Whole Kingdom.
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CHAPTER 3. How David Laid Siege To Jerusalem; And
When He Had Taken The City, He Cast The Canaanites Out Of It, And
Brought In The Jews To Inhabit Therein.
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CHAPTER 4. That When David Had Conquered The
Philistines Who Made War Against Him At Jerusalem, He Removed The
Ark To Jerusalem And Had A Mind To Build A Temple.
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CHAPTER 5. How David Brought Under The
Philistines, And The Moabites, And The Kings Of Sophene And Of
Damascus, And Of The Syrians As Also The Idumeans, In War; And How
He Made A League With The King Of Hamath; And Was Mindful Of The
Friendship That Jonathan, The Son Of Saul, Had Borne Him.
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CHAPTER 6. How The War Was Waged Against The
Ammonites And Happily Concluded.
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CHAPTER 7.
How David Fell In Love With Bathsheba,
And Slew Her Husband Uriah, For Which He Is Reproved By Nathan.
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CHAPTER 8.
How Absalom Murdered Amnon, Who Had
Forced His Own Sister; And How He Was Banished And Afterwards
Recalled By David.
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CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Insurrection Of Absalom
Against David And Concerning Ahithophel And Hushai; And Concerning
Ziba And Shimei; And How Ahithophel Hanged Himself.
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CHAPTER 10. How, When Absalom Was Beaten, He Was
Caught In A Tree By His Hair And Was Slain.
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CHAPTER 11. How David, When He Had Recovered His
Kingdom, Was Reconciled To Shimei, And To Ziba; And Showed A Great
Affection To Barzillai; And How, Upon The Rise Of A Sedition, He
Made Amasa Captain Of His Host, In Order To Pursue Seba; Which Amasa
Was Slain By Joab.
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CHAPTER 12. How The Hebrews Were Delivered From A
Famine When The Gibeonites Had Caused Punishment To Be Inflicted For
Those Of Them That Had Been Slain: As Also, What Great Actions Were
Performed Against The Philistines By David, And The Men Of Valor
About Him.
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CHAPTER 13. That When David Had Numbered the
People, They Were Punished; and How the Divine Compassion Restrained
That Punishment.
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CHAPTER 14. That David Made Great Preparations
For The House Of God; And That, Upon Adonijah's Attempt To Gain The
Kingdom, He Appointed Solomon To Reign.
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CHAPTER 15. What Charge David Gave Tohis Son
Solomon At The Approach Of His Death, And How Many Things He Left
Him For The Building Of The Temple.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 8. Containing The Interval Of One Hundred
And Sixty-Three Years.—From The Death Of David To The Death Of Ahab.
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CHAPTER 1. How Solomon, When He Had Received The
Kingdom Took Off His Enemies.
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CHAPTER 2. Concerning The Wife Of Solomon;
Concerning His Wisdom And Riches; And Concerning What He Obtained Of
Hiram For The Building Of The Temple.
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CHAPTER 3. Of The Building Of This Temple
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CHAPTER 4.
How Solomon Removed The Ark Into The
Temple How He Made Supplication To God, And Offered Public
Sacrifices To Him.
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CHAPTER 5.
How Solomon Built Himself A Royal
Palace, Very Costly And Splendid; And How He Solved The Riddles
Which Were Sent Him By Hiram.
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CHAPTER 6. How Solomon Fortified The City Of
Jerusalem, And Built Great Cities; And How He Brought Some Of The
Canaanites Into Subjection, And Entertained The Queen Of Egypt And
Of Ethiopia.
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CHAPTER 7. How Solomon Grew Rich, And Fell
Desperately In Love With Women And How God, Being Incensed At It,
Raised Up Ader And Jeroboam Against Him. Concerning The Death Of
Solomon.
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CHAPTER 8. How, Upon The Death Of Solomon The
People Forsook His Son Rehoboam, And Ordained Jeroboam King Over The
Ten Tribes.
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CHAPTER 9. How Jadon The Prophet Was Persuaded By
Another Lying Prophet And Returned [To Bethel,] And Was Afterwards
Slain By A Lion. As Also What Words The Wicked Prophet Made Use Of
To Persuade The King, And Thereby Alienated His Mind From God.
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CHAPTER 10. Concerning Rehoboam, And How God
Inflicted Punishment Upon Him For His Impiety By Shishak [King Of
Egypt].
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CHAPTER 11. Concerning The Death Of A Son Of
Jeroboam. How Jeroboam Was Beaten By Abijah Who Died A Little
Afterward And Was Succeeded In His Kingdom By Asa. And Also How,
After The Death Of Jeroboam Baasha Destroyed His Son Nadab And All
The House Of Jeroboam.
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CHAPTER 12. How Zerah, King Of The Ethiopians,
Was Beaten By Asa; And How Asa, Upon Baasha's Making War Against
Him, Invited The King Of The Damascens To Assist Him; And How, On
The Destruction Of The House Of Baasha Zimri Got The Kingdom As Did
His Son Ahab After Him.
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CHAPTER 13.
How Ahab When He Had Taken Jezebel To
Wife Became More Wicked Than All The Kings That Had Been Before Him;
Of The Actions Of The Prophet Elijah, And What Befell Naboth.
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CHAPTER 14. How Hadad King Of Damascus And Of
Syria, Made Two Expeditions Against Ahab And Was Beaten.
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CHAPTER 15. Concerning Jehoshaphat The King Of
Jerusalem And How Ahab Made An Expedition Against The Syrians And
Was Assisted Therein By Jehoshaphat, But Was Himself Overcome In
Battle And Perished Therein.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 9.
Containing The Interval Of One Hundred
And Fifty-Seven Years.—From The Death Of Ahab To The Captivity Of
The Ten Tribes.
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CHAPTER 1. Concerning Jehoshaphat Again; How He
Constituted Judges And, By God's Assistance Overcame His Enemies.
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CHAPTER 2. Concerning Ahaziah; The King Of
Israel; And Again Concerning The Prophet Elijah.
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CHAPTER 3. How Joram And Jehoshaphat Made An
Expedition Against The Moabites; As Also Concerning The Wonders Of
Elisha; And The Death Of Jehoshaphat.
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CHAPTER 4. Jehoram Succeeds Jehoshaphat; How
Joram, His Namesake, King Of Israel, Fought With The Syrians; And
What Wonders Were Done By The Prophet Elisha.
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CHAPTER 5. Concerning The Wickedness Of Jehoram
King O Jerusalem; His Defeat And Death.
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CHAPTER 6.
How Jehu Was Anointed King, And Slew
Both Joram And Ahaziah; As Also What He Did For The Punishment Of
The Wicked.
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CHAPTER 7. How Athaliah Reigned Over Jerusalem
For Five [Six] Years When Jehoiada The High Priest Slew Her And Made
Jehoash, The Son Of Ahaziah, King.
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CHAPTER 8. Hazael Makes An Expedition Against The
People Of Israel And The Inhabitants Of Jerusalem. Jehu Dies, And
Jehoahaz Succeeds In The Government. Jehoash The King Of Jerusalem
At First Is Careful About The Worship Of God But Afterwards Becomes
Impious And Commands Zechariah To Be Stoned. When Jehoash [King Of
Judah] Was Dead, Amaziah Succeeds Him In The Kingdom.
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CHAPTER 9. How Amaziah Made An Expedition Against
The Edomites And Amalekites And Conquered Them; But When He
Afterwards Made War Against Joash, He Was Beaten And Not Long After
Was Slain, And Uzziah Succeeded In The Government.
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CHAPTER 10. Concerning Jeroboam King Of Israel
And Jonah The Prophet; And How After The Death Of Jeroboam His Son
Zachariah Took The Government. How Uzziah, King Of Jerusalem,
Subdued The Nations That Were Round About Him; And What Befell Him
When He Attempted To Offer Incense To God.
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CHAPTER 11. How Zachariah Shallum, Menahem
Pekahiah And Pekah Took The Government Over The Israelites; And How
Pul And Tiglath-Pileser Made An Expedition Against The Israelites.
How Jotham, The Son Of Uzziah Reigned Over The Tribe Of Judah; And
What Things Nahum Prophesied Against The Assyrians.
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CHAPTER 12. How Upon The Death Of Jotham, Ahaz
Reigned In His Stead; Against Whom Rezin, King Of Syria And Pekah
King Of Israel, Made War; And How Tiglath-Pileser, King Of Assyria
Came To The Assistance Of Ahaz, And Laid Syria Waste And Removing
The Damascenes Into Media Placed Other Nations In Their Room.
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CHAPTER 13.
How Pekah Died By The Treachery Of
Hoshea Who Was A Little After Subdued By Shalmaneser; And How
Hezekiah Reigned Instead Of Ahaz; And What Actions Of Piety And
Justice He Did.
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CHAPTER 14.
How Shalmaneser Took Samaria By Force
And How He Transplanted The Ten Tribes Into Media, And Brought The
Nation Of The Cutheans Into Their Country [In Their Room].
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 10. Containing The Interval Of One Hundred
And Eighty-Two Years And A Half.—From The Captivity Of The Ten
Tribes To The First Year Of Cyrus.
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CHAPTER 1. How Sennacherib Made An Expedition
Against Hezekiah; What Threatenings Rabshakeh Made To Hezekiah When
Sennacherib Was Gone Against The Egyptians; How Isaiah The Prophet
Encouraged Him; How Sennacherib Having Failed Of Success In Egypt,
Returned Thence To Jerusalem; And How Upon His Finding His Army
Destroyed, He Returned Home; And What Befell Him A Little Afterward.
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CHAPTER 2. How Hezekiah Was Sick, And Ready To
Die; And How God Bestowed Upon Him Fifteen Years Longer Life, [And
Secured That Promise] By The Going Back Of The Shadow Ten Degrees.
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CHAPTER 3. How Manasseh Reigned After Hezekiah;
And How When He Was In Captivity He Returned To God And Was Restored
To His Kingdom And Left It To [His Son] Amon.
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CHAPTER 4. How Amon Reigned Instead Of Manasseh;
And After Amon Reigned Josiah; He Was Both Righteous And Religious.
As Also Concerning Huldah The Prophetess.
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CHAPTER 5. How Josiah Fought With Neco [King Of
Egypt.] And Was Wounded And Died In A Little Time Afterward; As Also
How Neco Carried Jehoahaz, Who Had Been Made King Into Egypt And
Delivered The Kingdom To Jehoiakim; And [Lastly] Concerning Jeremiah
And Ezekiel.
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CHAPTER 6. How Nebuchadnezzar, When He Had
Conquered The King Of Egypt Made An Expedition Against The Jews, And
Slew Jehoiakim, And Made Jeholachin His Son King.
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CHAPTER 7. That The King Of Babylon Repented Of
Making Jehoiachin King, And Took Him Away To Babylon And Delivered
The Kingdom To Zedekiah. This King Would Not Believe What Was
Predicted By Jeremiah And Ezekiel But Joined Himself To The
Egyptians; Who When They Came Into Judea, Were Vanquished By The
King Of Babylon; As Also What Befell Jeremiah.
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CHAPTER 8. How The King Of Babylon Took Jerusalem
And Burnt The Temple And Removed The People Of Jerusalem And
Zedekiah To Babylon. As Also, Who They Were That Had Succeeded In
The High Priesthood Under The Kings.
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CHAPTER 9. How Nebuzaradan Set Gedaliah Over The
Jews That Were Left In Judea Which Gedaliah Was A Little Afterward
Slain By Ishmael; And How Johanan After Ishmael Was Driven Away Went
Down Into Egypt With The People Which People Nebuchadnezzar When He
Made An Expedition Against The Egyptians Took Captive And Brought
Them Away To Babylon.
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CHAPTER 10. Concerning Daniel And What Befell Him
At Babylon.
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CHAPTER 11. Concerning Nebuchadnezzar And His
Successors And How Their Government Was Dissolved By The Persians;
And What Things Befell Daniel In Media; And What Prophecies He
Delivered There.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 11. Containing The Interval Of Two Hundred
And Fifty-Three Years And Five Months.—From The First Of Cyrus To
The Death Of Alexander The Great.
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CHAPTER 1. How Cyrus, King Of The Persians,
Delivered The Jews Out Of Babylon And Suffered Them To Return To
Their Own Country And To Build Their Temple, For Which Work He Gave
Them Money.
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CHAPTER 2. How Upon The Death Of Cyrus The Jews
Were Hindered In Building Of The Temple By The Cutheans, And The
Neighboring Governors; And How Cambyses Entirely Forbade The Jews To
Do Any Such Thing.
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CHAPTER 3. How After The Death Of Cambyses And
The Slaughter Of The Magi But Under The Reign Of Darius, Zorobabel
Was Superior To The Rest In The Solution Of Problems And Thereby
Obtained This Favor Of The King, That The Temple Should Be Built.
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CHAPTER 4. How The Temple Was Built While The Cutheans Endeavored In Vain To Obstruct The Work.
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CHAPTER 5.
How Xerxes The Son Of Darius Was Well
Disposed To The Jews; As Also Concerning Esdras And Nehemiah.
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CHAPTER 6. Concerning Esther And Mordecai And
Haman; And How In The Reign Of Artaxerxes The Whole Nation Of The
Jews Was In Danger Of Perishing.
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CHAPTER 7. How John Slew His Brother Jesus In The
Temple; And How Bagoses Offered Many Injuries To The Jews; And What
Sanballat Did.
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CHAPTER 8. Concerning Sanballat And Manasseh, And
The Temple Which They Built On Mount Gerizzim; As Also How Alexander
Made His Entry Into The City Jerusalem, And What Benefits He
Bestowed On The Jews.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 12. Containing The Interval Of A Hundred And
Seventy Years.—From The Death Of Alexander The Great To The Death Of
Judas Maccabeus.
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CHAPTER 1.
How Ptolemy The Son Of Lagus Took
Jerusalem And Judea By Deceit And Treachery, And Carried Many
Thence, And Planted Them In Egypt.
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CHAPTER 2. How Ptolemy Philadelphus Procured The
Laws Of The Jews To Be Translated Into The Greek Tongue And Set Many
Captives Free, And Dedicated Many Gifts To God.
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CHAPTER 3. How The Kings Of Asia Honored The
Nation Of The Jews And Made Them Citizens Of Those Cities Which They
Built.
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CHAPTER 4. How Antiochus Made A League With
Ptolemy And How Onias Provoked Ptolemy Euergetes To Anger; And How
Joseph Brought All Things Right Again, And Entered Into Friendship
With Him; And What Other Things Were Done By Joseph, And His Son
Hyrcanus.
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CHAPTER 5. How, Upon The Quarrels One Against
Another About The High Priesthood Antiochus Made An Expedition
Against Jerusalem, Took The City And Pillaged The Temples. And
Distressed The Jews' As Also How Many Of The Jews Forsook The Laws
Of Their Country; And How The Samaritans Followed The Customs Of The
Greeks And Named Their Temple At Mount Gerizzim The Temple Of
Jupiter Hellenius.
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CHAPTER 6. How, Upon Antiochus's Prohibition To
The Jews To Make Use Of The Laws Of Their Country Mattathias, The
Son Of Asamoneus, Alone Despised The King, And Overcame The Generals
Of Antiochus's Army; As Also Concerning The Death Of Mattathias, And
The Succession Of Judas.
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CHAPTER 7. How Judas Overthrew The Forces Of
Apollonius And Seron And Killed The Generals Of Their Armies
Themselves; And How When, A Little While Afterwards Lysias And
Gorgias Were Beaten He Went Up To Jerusalem And Purified The Temple.
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CHAPTER 8.
How Judas Subdued The Nations Round
About; And How Simon Beat The People Of Tyre And Ptolemais; And How
Judas Overcame Timotheus, And Forced Him To Fly Away, And Did Many
Other Things After Joseph And Azarias Had Been Beaten.
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CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Death Of Antiochus Epiphane. How Antiochus Eupator Fought Against Juda And Besieged Him
In The Temple And Afterwards Made Peace With Him And Departed; Of
Alcimus And Onias.
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CHAPTER 10. How Bacchides, The General Of
Demetrius's Army, Made An Expedition Against Judea, And Returned
Without Success; And How Nicanor Was Sent A Little Afterward Against
Judas And Perished, Together With His Army; As Also Concerning The
Death Of Alcimus And The Succession Of Judas.
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CHAPTER 11. That Bacchides Was Again Sent Out
Against Judas; And How Judas Fell As He Was Courageously Fighting.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 13. Containing The Interval Of Eighty-Two
Years.—From The Death Of Judas Maccabeus To The Death Of Queen
Alexandra.
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CHAPTER 1. How Jonathan Took The Government After
His Brother Judas; And How He, Together With His Brother Simon,
Waged War Against Bacchides.
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CHAPTER 2. How Alexander [Bala] In His War With
Demetrius, Granted Jonathan Many Advantages And Appointed Him To Be
High Priest And Persuaded Him To Assist Him Although Demetrius
Promised Him Greater Advantages On The Other Side. Concerning The
Death
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CHAPTER 3. The Friendship That Was Between Onias
And Ptolemy Philometor; And How Onias Built A Temple In Egypt Like
To That At Jerusalem.
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CHAPTER 4. How Alexander Honored Jonathan After
An Extraordinary Manner; And How Demetrius, The Son Of Demetrius,
Overcame Alexander And Made A League Of Friendship With Jonathan.
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CHAPTER 5. How Trypho After He Had Beaten
Demetrius Delivered The Kingdom To Antiochus The Son Of Alexander,
And Gained Jonathan For His Assistant; And Concerning The Actions
And Embassies Of Jonathan.
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CHAPTER 6.
How Jonathan Was Slain By Treachery;
And How Thereupon The Jews Made Simon Their General And High Priest:
What Courageous Actions He Also Performed Especially Against Trypho.
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CHAPTER 7.
How Simon Confederated Himself With
Antiochus Pius, And Made War Against Trypho, And A Little Afterward,
Against Cendebeus, The General Of Antiochus's Army; As Also How
Simon Was Murdered By His Son-In-Law Ptolemy, And That By Treachery.
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CHAPTER 8. Hyrcanus Receives The High Priesthood,
And Ejects Ptolemy Out Of The Country. Antiochus Makes War Against
Hyrcanus And Afterwards Makes A League With Him.
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CHAPTER 9. How, After The Death Of Antiochus, Hyrcanus Made An Expedition Against Syria, And Made A League With
The Romans. Concerning The Death Of King Demetrius And Alexander.
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CHAPTER 10. How Upon The Quarrel Between
Antiochus Grypus And Antiochus Cyzicenus About The Kingdom Hyrcanus
Tooksamaria, And Utterly Demolished It; And How Hyrcaus Joined
Himself To The Sect Of The Sadducees, And Left That Of The
Pharisees.
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CHAPTER 11. How Aristobulus, When He Had Taken
The Government First Of All Put A Diadem On His Head, And Was Most
Barbarously Cruel To His Mother And His Brethren; And How, After He
Had Slain Antigonus, He Himself Died.
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CHAPTER 12.
How Alexander When He Had Taken The
Government Made An Expedition Against Ptolemais, And Then Raised The
Siege Out Of Fear Of Ptolemy Lathyrus; And How Ptolemy Made War
Against Him, Because He Had Sent To Cleopatra To Persuade Her To
Make War Against Ptolemy, And Yet Pretended To Be In Friendship With
Him, When He Beat The Jews In The Battle.
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CHAPTER 13. How Alexander, upon the League of
Mutual Defense Which Cleopatra Had Agreed with Him, Made an
Expedition Against Coelesyria, and Utterly Overthrew the City of
Gaza; and How He Slew Many Ten Thousands of Jews That Rebelled
Against Him.
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CHAPTER 14. How Demetrius Eucerus Overcame
Alexander And Yet In A Little Time Retired Out Of The Country For
Fear; As Also How Alexander Slew Many Of The Jews And Thereby Got
Clear Of His Troubles. Concerning The Death Of Demetrius.
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CHAPTER 15.
How Antiochus, Who Was Called
Dionysus, And After Him Aretas Made Expeditions Into Judea; As Also
How Alexander Took Many Cities And Then Returned To Jerusalem, And
After A Sickness Of Three Years Died; And What Counsel He Gave To
Alexandra.
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CHAPTER 16. How Alexandra By Gaining The
Good-Will Of The Pharisees, Retained The Kingdom Nine Years, And
Then, Having Done Many Glorious Actions Died.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 14. Containing The Interval Of Thirty-Two
Years.—From The Death Of Queen Alexandra To The Death Of Antigonus.
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CHAPTER 1. The War Between Aristobulus And
Hyrcanus About The Kingdom; And How They Made Anagreement That
Aristobulus Should Be King, And Hyrcanus Live A Private Life; As
Also How Hyrcanus A Little Afterward Was Persuaded By Antipater To
Fly To Aretas.
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CHAPTER 2. How Aretas And Hyrcanus Made An
Expedition Against Aristobulus And Besieged Jerusalem; And How
Scaurus The Roman General Raised The Siege. Concerning The Death Of
Onias.
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CHAPTER 3.
How Aristobulus And Hyrcanus Came To
Pompey In Order To Argue Who Ought To Have The Kingdom; And How Upon
The Plight Of Aristobulus To The Fortress Alexandrium Pompey Led His
Army Against Him And Ordered Him To Deliver Up The Fortresses
Whereof He Was Possessed.
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CHAPTER 4. How Pompey When The Citizens Of
Jerusalem Shut Their Gates Against Him Besieged The City And Took It
By Force; As Also What Other Things He Did In Judea.
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CHAPTER 5.
How Scaurus Made A League Of Mutual
Assistance With Aretas; And What Gabinius Did In Judea, After He Had
Conquered Alexander, The Son Of Aristobulus.
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CHAPTER 6. How Gabinius Caught Aristobulus After
He Had Fled From Rome, And Sent Him Back To Rome Again; And Now The
Same Gabinius As He Returned Out Of Egypt Overcame Alexander And The
Nabateans In Battle.
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CHAPTER 7. How Crassus Came Into Judea, And
Pillaged The Temple; And Then Marched Against The Parthians And
Perished, With His Army. Also How Cassius Obtained Syria, And Put A
Stop To The Parthians And Then Went Up To Judea.
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CHAPTER 8. The Jews Become Confederates With
Caesar When He Fought Against Egypt. The Glorious Actions Of
Antipater, And His Friendship With Caesar. The Honors Which The Jews
Received From The Romans And Athenians.
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CHAPTER 9. How Antipater Committed The Care Of
Galilee To Herod, And That Of Jerusalem To Phasaelus; As Also How
Herod Upon The Jews' Envy At Antipater Was Accused Before Hyrcanus.
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CHAPTER 10. The Honors That Were Paid The Jews;
And The Leagues That Were Made By The Romans And Other Nations, With
Them.
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CHAPTER 11. How Marcus, Succeeded Sextus When He
Had Been Slain By Bassus's Treachery; And How, After The Death Of
Caesar, Cassius Came Into Syria, And Distressed Judea; As Also How
Malichus Slew Antipater And Was Himself Slain By Herod.
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CHAPTER 12. Herod Ejects Antigonus, The Son Of
Aristobulus Out Of Judea, And Gains The Friendship Of Antony, Who
Was Now Come Into Syria, By Sending Him Much Money; On Which Account
He Would Not Admit Of Those That Would Have Accused Herod: And What
It Was That Antony Wrote To The Tyrians In Behalf.
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CHAPTER 13. How Antony Made Herod And Phasaelus
Tetrarchs, After They Had Been Accused To No Purpose; And How The
Parthians When They Brought Antigonus Into Judea Took Hyrcanus And
Phasaelus Captives. Herod's Flight; And What Afflictions Hyrcanus
And Phasaelus Endured.
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CHAPTER 14. How Herod Got Away From The King Of
Arabia And Made Haste To Go Into Egypt And Thence Went Away In Haste
Also To Rome; And How, By Promising A Great Deal Of Money To Antony
He Obtained Of The Senate And Of Caesar To Be Made King Of The Jews.
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CHAPTER 15. How Herod Sailed Out Of Italy To
Judea, And Fought With Antigonus And What Other Things Happened In
Judea About That Time.
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CHAPTER 16.
How Herod, When He Had Married Mariamne Took Jerusalem With The Assistance Of Sosius By Force; And
How The Government Of The Asamoneans Was Put An End To.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 15. Containing The Interval Of Eighteen
Years.—From The Death Of Antigonus To The Finishing Of The Temple By
Herod.
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CHAPTER 1.
Concerning Pollio And Sameas. Herod
Slays The Principal Of Antigonus's Friends, And Spoils The City Of
Its Wealth. Antony Beheads Antigonus.
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CHAPTER 2. How Hyrcanus Was Set At Liberty By The
Parthians, And Returned To Herod; And What Alexandra Did When She
Heard That Ananelus Was Made High Priest.
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CHAPTER 3. How Herod Upon His Making Aristobulus
High Priest Took Care That He Should Be Murdered In A Little Time;
And What Apology He Made To Antony About Aristobulus; As Also
Concerning Joseph And Mariamne.
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CHAPTER 4. How Cleopatra, When She Had Gotten
From Antony Some Parts Of Judea And Arabia Came Into Judea; And How
Herod Gave Her Many Presents And Conducted Her On Her Way Back To
Egypt.
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CHAPTER 5. How Herod Made War With The King Of
Arabia, And After They Had Fought Many Battles, At Length Conquered
Him, And Was Chosen By The Arabs To Be Governor Of That Nation; As
Also Concerning A Great Earthquake.
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CHAPTER 6. How Herod Slew Hyrcanus And Then
Hasted Away To Caesar, And Obtained The Kingdom From Him Also; And
How A Little Time Afterward, He Entertained Caesar In A Most
Honorable Manner.
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CHAPTER 7. How Herod Slew Sohemus And Mariamne
And Afterward Alexandra And Costobarus, And His Most Intimate
Friends, And At Last The Sons Of Babbas Also.
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CHAPTER 8.
How Ten Men Of The Citizens [Of
Jerusalem] Made A Conspiracy Against Herod, For The Foreign
Practices He Had Introduced, Which Was A Transgression Of The Laws
Of Their Country. Concerning The Building Of Sebaste And Cesarea,
And Other Edifices Of Herod.
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CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Famine That Happened In
Judea And Syria; And How Herod, After He Had Married Another Wife,
Rebuilt Cesarea, And Other Grecian Cities.
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CHAPTER 10. How Herod Sent His Sons To Rome; How
Also He Was Accused By Zenodorus And The Gadarens, But Was Cleared
Of What They Accused Him Of And Withal Gained To Himself The
Good-Will Of Caesar. Concerning The Pharisees, The Essens And
Manahem.
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CHAPTER 11. How Herod Rebuilt The Temple And
Raised It Higher And Made It More Magnificent Than It Was Before; As
Also Concerning That Tower Which He Called Antonia.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 16. Containing The Interval Of Twelve
Years.—From The Finishing Of The Temple By Herod To The Death Of
Alexander And Aristobulus.
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CHAPTER 1. A Law Of Herod's About, Thieves.
Salome And Pheroras Calumniate Alexander And Aristobulus, Upon Their
Return From Rome For Whom Yet Herod Provides Wives.
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CHAPTER 2. How Herod Twice Sailed To Agrippa; And
How Upon The Complaint In Ionia Against The Greeks Agrippa Confirmed
The Laws To Them.
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CHAPTER 3.
How Great Disturbances Arose In Herods
Family On His Preferring Antipater His Eldest Son Before The Rest,
Till Alexander Took That Injury Very Heinously.
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CHAPTER 4. How During Antipater's Abode At Rome,
Herod Brought Alexander And Aristobulus Before Caesar And Accused
Them. Alexander's Defense Of Himself Before Caesar And
Reconciliation To His Father.
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CHAPTER 5. How Herod Celebrated The Games That
Were To Return Every Fifth Year Upon The Building Of Cesarea; And
How He Built And Adorned Many Other Places After A Magnificent
Manner; And Did Many Other Actions Gloriously
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CHAPTER 6.
An Embassage In Cyrene And Asia To
Caesar, Concerning The Complaints They Had To Make Against The
Greeks; With Copies Of The Epistles Which Caesar And Agrippa Wrote
To The Cities For Them.
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CHAPTER 7. How, Upon Herod's Going Down Into
David's Sepulcher, The Sedition In His Family Greatly Increased.
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CHAPTER 8. How Herod Took Up Alexander And Bound
Him; Whom Yet Archelaus King Of Cappadocia Reconciled To His Father
Herod Again.
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CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Revolt Of The Trachonites; How Sylleus Accused Herod Before Caesar; And How Herod,
When Caesar Was Angry At Him, Resolved To Send Nicolaus To Rome.
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CHAPTER 10. How Eurycles Falsely Accused Herod's
Sons; And How Their Father Bound Them, And Wrote To Caesar About
Them. Of Sylleus And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus.
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CHAPTER 11. How Herod, By Permission From Caesar
Accused His Sons Before An Assembly Of Judges At Berytus; And What
Tero Suffered For Using A Boundless And Military Liberty Of Speech.
Concerning Also The Death Of The Young Men And Their Burial At
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 17.
Containing The Interval Of Fourteen
Years.—From The Death Of Alexander And Aristobulus To The Banishment
Of Archelaus.
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CHAPTER 1. How Antipater Was Hated By All The
Nation [Of The Jews] For The Slaughter Of His Brethren; And How, For
That Reason He Got Into Peculiar Favor With His Friends At Rome, By
Giving Them Many Presents; As He Did Also With Saturninus, The
President Of Syria And The Governors Who Were Under Him; And
Concerning Herod's Wives And Children.
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CHAPTER 2. Concerning Zamaris, The Babylonian
Jew; Concerning The Plots Laid By Antipater Against His Father; And
Somewhat About The Pharisees.
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CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Enmity Between Herod
And Pheroras; How Herod Sent Antipater To Caesar; And Of The Death
Of Pheroras.
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CHAPTER 4.
Pheroras's Wife Is Accused By His
Freedmen, As Guilty Of Poisoning Him; And How Herod, Upon Examining;
Of The Matter By Torture Found The Poison; But So That It Had Been
Prepared For Himself By His Son Antipater; And Upon An Inquiry By
Torture He Discovered The Dangerous Designs Of Antipater.
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CHAPTER 5.
Antipater's Navigation From Rome To
His Father; And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus Of Damascus And
Condemned To Die By His Father, And By Quintilius Varus, Who Was
Then President Of Syria; And How He Was Then Bound Till Caesar
Should Be Informed Of His Cause.
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CHAPTER 6. Concerning The Disease That Herod Fell
Into And The Sedition Which The Jews Raised Thereupon; With The
Punishment Of The Seditious.
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CHAPTER 7. Herod Has Thoughts Of Killing Himself
With His Own Hand; And A Little Afterwards He Orders Antipater To Be
Slain.
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CHAPTER 8. Concerning Herod's Death, And
Testament, And Burial.
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CHAPTER 9. How The People Raised A Sedition
Against Archelaus, And How He Sailed To Rome.
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CHAPTER 10.
A Sedition Against Sabinus; And How
Varus Brought The Authors Of It To Punishment.
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CHAPTER 11. An Embassage To Caesar; And How
Caesar Confirmed Herod's Testament.
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CHAPTER 12. Concerning A Spurious Alexander.
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CHAPTER 13.
How Archelaus Upon A Second
Accusation, Was Banished To Vienna.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 18. Containing The Interval Of Thirty-Two
Years.—From The Banishment Of Archelus To The Departure From
Babylon.
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CHAPTER 1. How Cyrenius Was Sent By Caesar To
Make A Taxation Of Syria And Judea; And How Coponius Was Sent To Be
Procurator Of Judea; Concerning Judas Of Galilee And Concerning The
Sects That Were Among The Jews.
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CHAPTER 2. Now Herod And Philip Built Several
Cities In Honor Of Caesar. Concerning The Succession Of Priests And
Procurators; As Also What Befell Phraates And The Parthians.
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CHAPTER 3. Sedition Of The Jews Against Pontius
Pilate. Concerning Christ, And What Befell Paulina And The Jews At
Rome.
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CHAPTER 4. How The Samaritans Made A Tumult And
Pilate Destroyed Many Of Them; How Pilate Was Accused And What
Things Were Done By Vitellius Relating To The Jews And The Parthians.
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CHAPTER 5. Herod The Tetrarch Makes War With Aretas, The King Of Arabia, And Is Beaten By Him As Also Concerning
The Death Of John The Baptist. How Vitellius Went Up To Jerusalem;
Together With Some Account Of Agrippa And Of The Posterity Of Herod
The Great.
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CHAPTER 6. Of The Navigation Of King Agrippa To
Rome, To Tiberius Caesar; And Now Upon His Being Accused By His Own
Freed-Man, He Was Bound; How Also He, Was Set At Liberty By Caius,
After Tiberius's Death And Was Made King Of The Tetrarchy Of Philip.
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CHAPTER 7. How Herod The Tetrarch Was Banished.
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CHAPTER 8. Concerning The Embassage Of The Jews
To Caius; [28] And How Caius Sent Petronius Into Syria To Make War
Against The Jews, Unless They Would Receive His Statue.
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CHAPTER 9. What Befell The Jews That Were In
Babylon On Occasion Of Asineus And Anileus, Two Brethren.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 19.
Containing The Interval Of Three Years
And A Half.—From The Departure Out Of Babylon To Fadus, The Roman
Procurator.
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CHAPTER 1. How Caius [1] Was Slain By Cherea.
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CHAPTER 2.
How The Senators Determined To Restore
The Democracy; But The Soldiers Were For Preserving The Monarchy,
Concerning The Slaughter Of Caius's Wife And Daughter. A Character
Of Caius's Morals.
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CHAPTER 3. How Claudius Was Seized Upon And
Brought Out Of His House And Brought To The Camp; And How The Senate
Sent An Embassage To Him.
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CHAPTER 4.
What Things King Agrippa Did For
Claudius; And How Claudius When He Had Taken The Government
Commanded The Murderers Of Caius To Be Slain.
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CHAPTER 5. How Claudius Restored To Agrippa His
Grandfathers Kingdoms And Augmented His Dominions; And How He
Published An Edict In Behalf.
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CHAPTER 6.
What Things Were Done By Agrippa At
Jerusalem When He Was Returned Back Into Judea; And What It Was That
Petronius Wrote To The Inhabitants Of Doris, In Behalf.
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CHAPTER 7. Concerning Silas And On What Account
It Was That King Agrippa Was Angry At Him. How Agrippa Began To
Encompass Jerusalem With A Wall; And What Benefits He Bestowed On
The Inhabitants Of Berytus.
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CHAPTER 8. What Other Acts Were Done By Agrippa
Until His Death; And After What Manner He Died.
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CHAPTER 9. What Things Were Done After The Death
Of Agrippa; And How Claudius, On Account Of The Youth And Unskilfulness Of Agrippa, Junior, Sent Cuspius Fadus To Be
Procurator Of Judea, And Of The Entire Kingdom.
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FOOTNOTES
- BOOK 20. Containing The Interval Of Twenty-Two
Years.—From Fadus The Procurator To Florus.
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CHAPTER 1. A Sedition Of The Philadelphians
Against The Jews; And Also Concerning The Vestments Of The High
Priest.
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CHAPTER 2. How Helena The Queen Of Adiabene And
Her Son Izates, Embraced The Jewish Religion; And How Helena
Supplied The Poor With Corn, When There Was A Great Famine At
Jerusalem.
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CHAPTER 3. How Artabanus, the King of Parthia out
of Fear of the Secret Contrivances of His Subjects Against Him, Went
to Izates, and Was By Him Reinstated in His Government; as Also How
Bardanes His Son Denounced War Against Izates.
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CHAPTER 4. How Izates Was Betrayed By His Own
Subjects, And Fought Against By The Arabians And How Izates, By The
Providence Of God, Was Delivered Out Of Their Hands.
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CHAPTER 5. Concerning Theudas And The Sons Of
Judas The Galilean; As Also What Calamity Fell Upon The Jews On The
Day Of The Passover.
-
CHAPTER 6. How There Happened A Quarrel Between
The Jews And The Samaritans; And How Claudius Put An End To Their
Differences.
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CHAPTER 7. Felix Is Made Procurator Of Judea; As
Also Concerning Agrippa, Junior And His Sisters.
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CHAPTER 8.
After What Manner Upon The Death Of
Claudius, Nero Succeeded In The Government; As Also What Barbarous
Things He Did. Concerning The Robbers, Murderers And Impostors, That
Arose While Felix And Festus Were Procurators Of Judea.
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CHAPTER 9.
Concerning Albinus Under Whose Procuratorship James Was Slain; As Also What Edifices Were Built By
Agrippa.
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CHAPTER 10.
An Enumeration Of The High Priests.
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CHAPTER 11.
Concerning Florus The Procurator, Who
Necessitated The Jews To Take Up Arms Against The Romans. The
Conclusion.
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FOOTNOTES
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