Antiquities of the Jews

by Flavius Josephus

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1. The Constitution Of The World And The Disposition Of The Elements
  4. Chapter 2. Concerning The Posterity Of Adam, And The Ten Generations From Him To The Deluge
  5. 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
  6. Chapter 4. Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And The Confusion Of Tongues
  7. Chapter 5. After What Manner The Posterity Of Noah Sent Out Colonies, And Inhabited The Whole Earth
  8. Chapter 6. How Every Nation Was Denominated From Their First Inhabitants
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Chapter 9. The Destruction Of The Sodomites By The Assyrian War
  12. 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
  13. Chapter 11. How God Overthrew The Nation Of The Sodomites, Out Of His Wrath Against Them For Their Sins
  14. Chapter 12. Concerning Abimelech; And Concerning Ismael The Son Of Abraham; And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His Posterity
  15. Chapter 13. Concerning Isaac The Legitimate Son Of Abraham
  16. Chapter 14. Concerning Sarah Abraham's Wife; And How She Ended Her Days
  17. Chapter 15. How The Nation Of The Troglodytes Were Derived From Abraham By Keturah
  18. Chapter 16. How Isaac Took Rebeka To Wife
  19. Chapter 17. Concerning The Death Of Abraham
  20. Chapter 18. Concerning The Sons Of Isaac, Esau And Jacob; Of Their Nativity And Education
  21. Chapter 19. Concerning Jacob's Flight Into Mesopotamia, By Reason Of The Fear He Was In Of His Brother
  22. Chapter 20. Concerning The Meeting Of Jacob And Esau
  23. Chapter 21. Concerning The Violation Of Dina's Chastity
  24. Chapter 22. How Isaac Died, And Was Buried In Hebron
  25. Chapter 1. How Esau And Jacob, Isaac's Sons Divided Their Habitation; And Esau Possessed Idumea And Jacob Canaan
  26. Chapter 2. How Joseph, The Youngest Of Jacob's Sons, Was Envied By His Brethren, When Certain Dreams Had Foreshown His Future Happiness
  27. 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
  28. Chapter 4. Concerning The Signal Chastity Of Joseph
  29. Chapter 5. What Things Befell Joseph In Prison
  30. Chapter 6. How Joseph When He Was Become Famous In Egypt, Had His Brethren In Subjection
  31. Chapter 7. The Removal Of Joseph's Father With All His Family, To Him, On Account Of The Famine
  32. Chapter 8. Of The Death Of Jacob And Joseph
  33. Chapter 9. Concerning The Afflictions That Befell The Hebrews In Egypt, During Four Hundred Years
  34. Chapter 10. How Moses Made War With The Ethiopians
  35. Chapter 11. How Moses Fled Out Of Egypt Into Midian
  36. Chapter 12. Concerning The Burning Bush And The Rod Of Moses
  37. Chapter 13. How Moses And Aaron Returned Into Egypt To Pharaoh
  38. Chapter 14. Concerning The Ten Plagues Which Came Upon The Egyptians
  39. Chapter 15. How The Hebrews Under The Conduct Of Moses Left Egypt
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. Chapter 3. That Moses Kindly Received-His Father-In-Law, Jethro, When He Came To Him To Mount Sinai
  44. 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
  45. Chapter 5. How Moses Ascended Up To Mount Sinai, And Received Laws From God, And Delivered Them To The Hebrews
  46. Chapter 6. Concerning The Tabernacle Which Moses Built In The Wilderness For The Honor Of God And Which Seemed To Be A Temple
  47. Chapter 7. Concerning The Garments Of The Priests, And Of The High Priest
  48. Chapter 8. Of The Priesthood Of Aaron
  49. Chapter 9. The Manner Of Our Offering Sacrifices
  50. Chapter 10. Concerning The Festivals; And How Each Day Of Such Festival Is To Be Observed
  51. Chapter 11. Of The Purifications
  52. Chapter 12. Several Laws
  53. Chapter 13. Moses Removed From Mount Sinai, And Conducted The People To The Borders Of The Canaanites
  54. 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 Repor
  55. 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 Tak
  56. Chapter 1. Fight Of The Hebrews With The Canaanites Without The Consent Of Moses; And Their Defeat
  57. Chapter 2. The Sedition Of Corah And Of The Multitude Against Moses, And Against His Brother, Concerning The Priesthood
  58. 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
  59. Chapter 4. What Happened To The Hebrews During Thirty-Eight Years In The Wilderness
  60. 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
  61. Chapter 6. Concerning Balaam The Prophet And What Kind Of Man He Was
  62. Chapter 7. How The Hebrews Fought With The Midianites, And Overcame Them
  63. Chapter 8. The Polity Settled By Moses; And How He Disappeared From Among Mankind
  64. 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
  65. 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
  66. 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
  67. 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
  68. 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
  69. 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 Multitud
  70. Chapter 7. That The Judges Who Succeeded Gideon Made War With The Adjoining Nations For A Long Time
  71. Chapter 8. Concerning The Fortitude Of Samson, And What Mischiefs He Brought Upon The Philistines
  72. Chapter 9. How Under Eli's Government Of The Israelites Booz Married Ruth, From Whom Came Obed The Grandfather Of David
  73. Chapter 10. Concerning The Birth Of Samuel; And How He Foretold The Calamity That Befell The Sons Of Eli
  74. Chapter 11. Herein Is Declared What Befell The Sons Of Eli, The Ark, And The People And How Eli Himself Died Miserably
  75. 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 T
  76. 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
  77. 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 Th
  78. Chapter 4. The Appointment Of A King Over The Israelites, Whose Name Was Saul; And This By The Command Of God
  79. Chapter 5. Saul's Expedition Against The Nation Of The Ammonites And Victory Over Them And The Spoils He Took From Them
  80. Chapter 6. How The Philistines Made Another Expedition Against The Hebrews And Were Beaten
  81. Chapter 7. Saul's War With The Amalekites, And Conquest Of Them
  82. 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
  83. 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
  84. 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 Bri
  85. 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
  86. 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
  87. 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
  88. Chapter 14. How 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 O
  89. 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
  90. Chapter 2. That Upon The Slaughter Of Ishbosheth By The Treachery Of His Friends, David Received The Whole Kingdom
  91. 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
  92. 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
  93. 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
  94. Chapter 6. How The War Was Waged Against The Ammonites And Happily Concluded
  95. Chapter 7. How David Fell In Love With Bathsheba, And Slew Her Husband Uriah, For Which He Is Reproved By Nathan
  96. Chapter 8. How Absalom Murdered Amnon, Who Had Forced His Own Sister; And How He Was Banished And Afterwards Recalled By David
  97. Chapter 9. Concerning The Insurrection Of Absalom Against David And Concerning Ahithophel And Hushai; And Concerning Ziba And Shimei; And How Ahithophel Hanged Himself
  98. Chapter 10. How, When Absalom Was Beaten, He Was Caught In A Tree By His Hair And Was Slain
  99. 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
  100. 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 Aga
  101. Chapter 13. That When David Had Numbered the People, They Were Punished; and How the Divine Compassion Restrained That Punishment
  102. 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
  103. Chapter 15. What Charge David Gave To his Son Solomon At The Approach Of His Death, And How Many Things He Left Him For The Building Of The Temple
  104. Chapter 1. How Solomon, When He Had Received The Kingdom Took Off His Enemies
  105. 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
  106. Chapter 3. Of The Building Of This Temple
  107. Chapter 4. How Solomon Removed The Ark Into The Temple How He Made Supplication To God, And Offered Public Sacrifices To Him
  108. 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
  109. 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
  110. 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
  111. Chapter 8. How, Upon The Death Of Solomon The People Forsook His Son Rehoboam, And Ordained Jeroboam King Over The Ten Tribes
  112. 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
  113. Chapter 10. Concerning Rehoboam, And How God Inflicted Punishment Upon Him For His Impiety By Shishak [King Of Egypt]
  114. 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
  115. 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
  116. 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
  117. Chapter 14. How Hadad King Of Damascus And Of Syria, Made Two Expeditions Against Ahab And Was Beaten
  118. 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 Th
  119. Chapter 1. Concerning Jehoshaphat Again; How He Constituted Judges And, By God's Assistance Overcame His Enemies
  120. Chapter 2. Concerning Ahaziah; The King Of Israel; And Again Concerning The Prophet Elijah
  121. Chapter 3. How Joram And Jehoshaphat Made An Expedition Against The Moabites; As Also Concerning The Wonders Of Elisha; And The Death Of Jehoshaphat
  122. 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
  123. Chapter 5. Concerning The Wickedness Of Jehoram King Of Jerusalem; His Defeat And Death
  124. Chapter 6. How Jehu Was Anointed King, And Slew Both Joram And Ahaziah; As Also What He Did For The Punishment Of The Wicked
  125. 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
  126. 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 Caref
  127. 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
  128. 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
  129. 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
  130. 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 Assistan
  131. 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
  132. 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]
  133. 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
  134. 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
  135. 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
  136. 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
  137. 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 King
  138. Chapter 6. How Nebuchadnezzar, When He Had Conquered The King Of Egypt Made An Expedition Against The Jews, And Slew Jehoiakim, And Made Jehoiachin His Son King
  139. 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 A
  140. 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 Und
  141. 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
  142. Chapter 10. Concerning Daniel And What Befell Him At Babylon
  143. 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
  144. 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
  145. 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
  146. 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 O
  147. Chapter 4. How The Temple Was Built While The Cutheans Endeavored In Vain To Obstruct The Work
  148. Chapter 5. How Xerxes The Son Of Darius Was Well Disposed To The Jews; As Also Concerning Esdras And Nehemiah
  149. 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
  150. Chapter 7. How John Slew His Brother Jesus In The Temple; And How Bagoses Offered Many Injuries To The Jews; And What Sanballat Did
  151. 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
  152. 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
  153. 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
  154. Chapter 3. How The Kings Of Asia Honored The Nation Of The Jews And Made Them Citizens Of Those Cities Which They Built
  155. 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 Oth
  156. 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
  157. 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 Ar
  158. 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
  159. 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
  160. 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
  161. 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, Toge
  162. Chapter 11. That Bacchides Was Again Sent Out Against Judas; And How Judas Fell As He Was Courageously Fighting
  163. Chapter 1. How Jonathan Took The Government After His Brother Judas; And How He, Together With His Brother Simon, Waged War Against Bacchides
  164. 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
  165. Chapter 3. The Friendship That Was Between Onias And Ptolemy Philometor; And How Onias Built A Temple In Egypt Like To That At Jerusalem
  166. 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
  167. 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
  168. 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
  169. 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 B
  170. 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
  171. 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
  172. Chapter 10. How Upon The Quarrel Between Antiochus Grypus And Antiochus Cyzicenus About The Kingdom Hyrcanus Tooksamaria, And Utterly Demolished It; And How Hyrcanus Joined Himself To The Sect Of The
  173. 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 Antigonu
  174. 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, Becaus
  175. 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 Te
  176. 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. Co
  177. 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 Thr
  178. 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
  179. 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 Af
  180. 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
  181. 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 H
  182. 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
  183. 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
  184. Chapter 6. How Gabinius Caught Aristobulus After He Had Fled From Rome, And Sent Him Back To Rome Again; And How The Same Gabinius As He Returned Out Of Egypt Overcame Alexander And The Nabateans In B
  185. 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 An
  186. Chapter 8. The Jews Become Confederates With Cã¦sar When He Fought Against Egypt. The Glorious Actions Of Antipater, And His Friendship With Cã¦sar. The Honors Which The Jews Received From The Romans
  187. 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
  188. Chapter 10. The Honors That Were Paid The Jews; And The Leagues That Were Made By The Romans And Other Nations, With Them
  189. Chapter 11. How Marcus, Succeeded Sextus When He Had Been Slain By Bassus's Treachery; And How, After The Death Of Cã¦sar, Cassius Came Into Syria, And Distressed Judea; As Also How Malichus Slew Anti
  190. 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
  191. 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.
  192. 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
  193. Chapter 15. How Herod Sailed Out Of Italy To Judea, And Fought With Antigonus And What Other Things Happened In Judea About That Time
  194. 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
  195. Chapter 1. Concerning Pollio And Sameas. Herod Slays The Principal Of Antigonus's Friends, And Spoils The City Of Its Wealth. Antony Beheads Antigonus
  196. 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
  197. 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
  198. 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
  199. 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
  200. Chapter 6. How Herod Slew Hyrcanus And Then Hasted Away To Cã¦sar, And Obtained The Kingdom From Him Also; And How A Little Time Afterward, He Entertained Cã¦sar In A Most Honorable Manner
  201. 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
  202. 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 T
  203. Chapter 9. Concerning The Famine That Happened In Judea And Syria; And How Herod, After He Had Married Another Wife, Rebuilt Cã¦sarea, And Other Grecian Cities
  204. 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 Cã¦sar. Co
  205. 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
  206. 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
  207. Chapter 2. How Herod Twice Sailed To Agrippa; And How Upon The Complaint In Ionia Against The Greeks Agrippa Confirmed The Laws To Them
  208. How Great Disturbances Arose In Herods Family On His Preferring Antipater His Eldest Son Before The Rest, Till Alexander Took That Injury Very Heinously
  209. Chapter 4. How During Antipater's Abode At Rome, Herod Brought Alexander And Aristobulus Before Cã¦sar And Accused Them. Alexander's Defense Of Himself Before Cã¦sar And Reconciliation To His Father
  210. Chapter 5. How Herod Celebrated The Games That Were To Return Every Fifth Year Upon The Building Of Cã¦sarea; And How He Built And Adorned Many Other Places After A Magnificent Manner; And Did Many Ot
  211. Chapter 6. An Embassage In Cyrene And Asia To Cã¦sar, Concerning The Complaints They Had To Make Against The Greeks; With Copies Of The Epistles Which Cã¦sar And Agrippa Wrote To The Cities For Them
  212. Chapter 7. How, Upon Herod's Going Down Into David's Sepulcher, The Sedition In His Family Greatly Increased
  213. Chapter 8. How Herod Took Up Alexander And Bound Him; Whom Yet Archelaus King Of Cappadocia Reconciled To His Father Herod Again
  214. Chapter 9. Concerning The Revolt Of The Trachonites; How Sylleus Accused Herod Before Cã¦sar; And How Herod, When Cã¦sar Was Angry At Him, Resolved To Send Nicolaus To Rome
  215. Chapter 10. How Eurycles Falsely Accused Herod's Sons; And How Their Father Bound Them, And Wrote To Cã¦sar About Them. Of Sylleus And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus
  216. Chapter 11. How Herod, By Permission From Cã¦sar 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
  217. 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
  218. Chapter 2. Concerning Zamaris, The Babylonian Jew; Concerning The Plots Laid By Antipater Against His Father; And Somewhat About The Pharisees
  219. Chapter 3. Concerning The Enmity Between Herod And Pheroras; How Herod Sent Antipater To Cã¦sar; And Of The Death Of Pheroras
  220. 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 Himsel
  221. 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;
  222. Chapter 6. Concerning The Disease That Herod Fell Into And The Sedition Which The Jews Raised Thereupon; With The Punishment Of The Seditious
  223. Chapter 7. Herod Has Thoughts Of Killing Himself With His Own Hand; And A Little Afterwards He Orders Antipater To Be Slain
  224. Chapter 8. Concerning Herod's Death, And Testament, And Burial
  225. Chapter 9. How The People Raised A Sedition Against Archelaus, And How He Sailed To Rome
  226. Chapter 10. A Sedition Against Sabinus; And How Varus Brought The Authors Of It To Punishment
  227. Chapter 11. An Embassage To Cã¦sar; And How Cã¦sar Confirmed Herod's Testament
  228. Chapter 12. Concerning A Spurious Alexander
  229. Chapter 13. How Archelaus Upon A Second Accusation, Was Banished To Vienna
  230. Chapter 1. How Cyrenius Was Sent By Cã¦sar 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 Am
  231. Chapter 2. How Herod And Philip Built Several Cities In Honor Of Cã¦sar. Concerning The Succession Of Priests And Procurators; As Also What Befell Phraates And The Parthians
  232. Chapter 3. Sedition Of The Jews Against Pontius Pilate. Concerning Christ, And What Befell Paulina And The Jews At Rome
  233. 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
  234. 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 A
  235. Chapter 6. Of The Navigation Of King Agrippa To Rome, To Tiberius Cã¦sar; 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
  236. Chapter 7. How Herod The Tetrarch Was Banished
  237. Chapter 8. Concerning The Embassage Of The Jews To Caius; And How Caius Sent Petronius Into Syria To Make War Against The Jews, Unless They Would Receive His Statue
  238. Chapter 9. What Befell The Jews That Were In Babylon On Occasion Of Asineus And Anileus, Two Brethren
  239. Chapter 1. How Caius Was Slain By Cherea
  240. 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
  241. 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
  242. 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
  243. Chapter 5. How Claudius Restored To Agrippa His Grandfathers Kingdoms And Augmented His Dominions; And How He Published An Edict In Behalf
  244. 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
  245. 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 Ber
  246. Chapter 8. What Other Acts Were Done By Agrippa Until His Death; And After What Manner He Died
  247. 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 En
  248. Chapter 1. A Sedition Of The Philadelphians Against The Jews; And Also Concerning The Vestments Of The High Priest
  249. 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
  250. 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
  251. 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
  252. 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
  253. Chapter 6. How There Happened A Quarrel Between The Jews And The Samaritans; And How Claudius Put An End To Their Differences
  254. Chapter 7. Felix Is Made Procurator Of Judea; As Also Concerning Agrippa, Junior And His Sisters
  255. 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
  256. Chapter 9. Concerning Albinus Under Whose Procuratorship James Was Slain; As Also What Edifices Were Built By Agrippa
  257. Chapter 10. An Enumeration Of The High Priests
  258. Chapter 11. Concerning Florus The Procurator, Who Necessitated The Jews To Take Up Arms Against The Romans. The Conclusion

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