were taken by him To the performance whereof Ananias perswaded Albinus by manifest reason and by obtaining his demaund encreased and begat a number of miseries For the theeues vsed all the wilie meanes they could deuise in apprehending some one of Ananias house and when they had taken any one of them aliue they would not deliuer him except before they might haue one of their owne deliuered So that increasing both in courage and number they waxed more more insolent to afflict the countrey At the same time king Agrippa enlarged the citie of Caesarea surnamed Philippi and in honour of Nero called it Neronias He builded also to his great charge a Theater in fauour of the Berytians wherein euerie yeere he spent diuers thousands of siluer in sports He distributed oyle and corne to euery one of the people and garnished all the citie with most anticke and goodly counterfaited portraitures vpon the porches Briefely he welny transported into the citie all the ornamnts of the rest of his kingdom for which cause his subiects began to hate him seeing he depriued thē of their rare ornaments to adorn one strange citie Iesus the sonne of Gamaliel succeeded in the priesthood which the king had giuen him and taken away from Iesus the sonne of Damneus who resigned him his place against his will Whereupon there arose a discord betweene them For hauing assembled their resolutest followers they grew from bitter words to fatall blowes and stones But amongst all the rest Ananias was the richest in wealth and by his bountie reconciled the more vnto him Costobarus also and Saul gathered each of them a band of rascall and desperate men These two were of the bloud royall and by reason of their affinitie and alliance with Agrippa they were well beloued ◅or which cause they were outragious and violent in spoiling and rauishing the fortunes of the weaker sort From this time forward the estate of our Citie grewe desperate encrcasing daily more and more in wickednesse When Albinas vnderstood that Gessius Florus came to succeed him desirous that they of Ierusalem should acknowledge some good turne at his hands he called before him all those prisoners that were notoriously guiltie of murther and caused them to be executed As for those that were imprisoned vpon any small or sleight cause vpon paiment of their fines he deliuered them and in so doing the prison was cleansed of malefactors and from that time the countrey remained full of theeues and Robbers The Leuites who were ordained to sing the hymnes vnto God sollicited the king to assemble the councell and thereby to permi◅ them to weare the linnen Robe which the priests were accustomed to vse telling him that such an ordinance would dignifie his estate verie much in that he would be alwaies famous in memory of this new establishment This suit of theirs was easily respected and admitted For the king after he had consulted with those who were his assistants suffered the Leuites that sung the hymnes to lay aside their ordinarie Robe and to apparrell themselues in linnen as best liked them He permitted also that another part of the Leuites who intended the seruice of the temple should learne to sing the hymnes and psalmes according ◅s they had required All which he did contrarie to the ordinances of the countrey which being broken there was nought else to be expected but punishment At that time was the building of the temple finished And the people perceiuing that more then eighteene thousand workmen should be idle and depriued of wages whereupon they were accustomed to liue in trauailing in the building of the temple on the other side being Ioath to reserue their money thorow the feare they had of the Romanes to prouide that these workmen in the intertainment of whom they resolued to employ their treasure for if any one of them trauailed but one howre in the day he was sodainly paide his wages they requested the king that it might please him to repaire the Easterne gate on the outward part of the temple scituate in a descent the wals whereof were in height foure hundreth cubits made of square stones of white marble from the top to the bottome and euery stone twentie foot long and six foot thicke This worke was first builded by king Salomon who was the first that builded our temple But the king to whom Claudius Caesar had giuen the commission of building the temple thinking with himselfe that it was verie easie to breake it downe but very hard to build it vp and that to reedifie the porch it would cost much time and expence he denied their request permitting them neuerthelesse to paue their citie with broad stone Hee tooke the priesthoode from Iesus the sonne of Gamaliel and gaue it to Matthias the sonne of Theophilus In whose time the warre betwixt the Romanes and Iewes grew to the first head But I thinke it not amisse but verie answerable to the course of this present historie to speake of the priests and to shew how they had their beginning and to whom this honour may be lawfully communicated and how many they were in number vntill the end of the warre The first of them was Aaron Moses brother after whose death his children succeeded him and from that time forward the honour hath continued with their successors For it is a law obserued by our auncestors that no man shall be admitted to the priesthood except he be of Aarons posteritie for albeit he were a king if so be that he were of an other line it was impossible for him to obtaine the priesthood All the priests after Aaron who as we haue said was the first vntill Phanasus whom the seditious created priest in the time of the warre haue been in number 83. whereof 13 haue executed the office from the time that Moses erected Gods tabernacle in the desart vntil such time as arriuing in Iudaea king Salomon builded a temple to God For in the beginning the hie priesthood continued with the possessors for terme of life but afterwards although the priests were yet aliue yet were there other successors planted in their roomes These thirteene were of Aarons posteritie and obtained this degree in succession the one after the other Their first gouernment was Aristocratia which is the gouernment of the nobilitie afterwards a monarchy and finally a royall gouernment The number of yeers wherein these thirteene flourished were sixe hundreth and twelue yeeres from the day that our fathers departed out of Aegypt vnder the conduct of Moses vntill the edification of the temple that was builded in Ierusalem by king Salomon After these thirteene high priests there were eighteene others who after Salomons time succeeded one after another vntill the time that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hauing encamped before the Citie tooke the same and burned the temple and transported our nation into Babylon and led away the high priest Iosedech prisoner The time of the priesthood
a. high priesthood confirmed to him 80. g h i. giueth his stoole to Eleazar 82. h. his death ibid. h. Aarons rod fructifieth 81. a. Abdon Iudge of Israel 120. k. renowmed for his issue ibid. k. Abel second son of Adam 5. a. is commended ibid. a b. is stain by his brother and why ibid b c. Abias leuieth an army 211 b. ouercommeth Ieroboam 211. f. dieth 212. g. his issue ibid. Abiathar escapes Sauls hands 149. d. telleth Dauid of his families slaughter 150. g. asketh counsell of God 157. b. dispossessed of the priesthood 191. d. holpe Adonias 186. l. Abigal pacifieth Dauid 152 k l m. after married to Dauid 153. b. Abihu Aarons son burned 67. a. and why ibid a. Abimelech king of Gerar enamoured of Sara 16 i. plagued for taking her ibid i. made a couenant with Abraham ibid l. expelleth Isaac his countrey 21. b. after maketh a league with him ibid. c. d. Abimelech Gedeons bastard sonne 117. c. killeth 69. of his brethren and vsurpeth ibid. e f. practiseth against the Sichemites 118. i k. slaieth them and sacketh their Citie ib. l. burned the Sichemites fled to the rock 118. l m. taketh Tebez 119. a. is wounded and slaine ibid. Abiram rebellious 79. a b. he and those that were with him swallowed vp 80. g. Abisai ouercommeth the Idumaeans 167. c. sent against the Ammonites 169. a. Abisai 183. c. Abisace nourisheth Dauid 186. i. Abner Sauls vncle 132. l. questioneth with Saul ibid. m. Generall of his army 147. c. maketh Isboseth king 160. g. reuolteth from Isboseth 161. a. killeth Azael 160. perswadeth the Gouernours to create Dauid king 161. c d. is slaine 162. g. Abraham son of Thares 11. c. tenth from Noe ib. e. taught the Aegyptians religion artes 13. b c. first preacher of the word 12. i. his wisedome ib. an Astronomer 12. k. 13. c. an Arithmetitian ibid. c. his house 12. l. oppressed by famine ibid. m. deuided the land with Lot 13. c. rescueth Lot and the Sodomites 14. h. A son promised him 14. k. 15. b. foretolde his progenie to be euill intreated 14. k l. circumcised himselfe and Ismael 15. b. entertaineth Angels and entreateth for the Sodomites ib. d e. intended to offer his son 18. h. k. marrieth Chetura 19. prouideth a wife for his son ib. d. dieth 20. l. is commended ibid. Absence of Dauid excused 147. c d. Absolon killeth Amnon 173. a. fled to Gessur 173. c. reuoked from banishment and how ibid. d e. affecteth the kingdome 174. k. proclaimed king ibid. l. passeth ouer Iordan 177. d. his ouerthrow 178. h. slaine by Ioab ib. i. Abundance foretold 40. l. Abundance of siluer 204. h. Abundance of victuals foreshewed 228. i k. effected 229. d. Abundance of victuall shewed 722. g h. Acclamation of the people 451. c. Accusation of Laban against Iacob 25. b. of Iacob against him ib. d e. of Putifars wife against Ioseph 32. g. of Doeg against Achimelech 149. a. of Aristobulus and Hyrcanus 353. b c. of Antipater against his brethren 595. f. of Herod and Nicholaus 602. m. 603. a. 604. h. of Antipater against Archelaus 609. d. of the Iewes 612. k. Achab son of Amri king of Israel 214. h. followeth impieties ibid. tooke to wife Iesabell ibid. seeketh Elias 215. c. coueteth Naboths vineyard 217. b. his repentance ibid. f. twise ouercommeth the Syrians 219. a b d. reprooued for dismissing Adad 220. h i. imprisoneth Micheas and why 220. i. 221. b. reiected his aduice 221. e. f. wounded dieth 222. g h. Achabs 70. sons 232. Achar stole the spoiles dedicated to God 102 m. hid them in his tent 103. a. found guiltie and put to death ibid. c. d. Achaz of Iuda sacrificeth his son 241. a. serueth Idols ib. a b. 242. g. ouerthrown in battell 241. c. hireth Theglaphalasar 241. f. shutteth the temple gates 242. h. dieth ibid. Achias reprooued Salomon 204. l. foretold Ieroboam to be king ouer 10. tribes 205. c. Achis a king of the Philistines 148. h. leadeth out Dauid against the Hebrewes 156. k. dismisseth him and why ibid. l m. Achitophels counsell against Dauid 176. a. hangeth himselfe 177. b. Acmes letter to Antipater 446. m. 447. a. executed 450. g. Acquaintance of Rebecca with Abrahams seruant 20. g. Act of Saul most malicious 149. d. an Action how said to be good 140. h. Action of Saul and his people 139. e. Acts of the Israelites 109. b c d e f. Acts of Simon against the Zelous 692. h. c. Act most cruell 723. c. d. Actian warre 584 h. Adad king of Damasco ouercome 167. a. Adad king of Syria proposeth conditions to Achab 218. h i. k. ouerthrowne 217. a. his second expedition ibid. c. taken prisoner is dismissed ibid. d e. discomfiteth and slaieth Achab 222. g. h. asketh counsell of Elizaeus 229. c. his death foretold 229. f. Adam created and how 3. f. placed in paradice 4. g. forbidden the tree of knowledge onely 4. h. transgresseth ibid. i. cast out of Paradice 5. a. begot Cain and Abel ibid. a and other children also 6. g. his age and death ibid. g h. 7. b. prophecied of a twofold destruction ibid. h. Adar a moneth of the Hebrewes 99. e. Ader enemie to Salomon 205. a. spoiled the landes of the Israelites 205. c. Adoni-bezec taken 109. c. punished confesseth Gods iustice ibid. c. Adonias affecteth the kingdome 186. i. flieth to the Altar 187. d. requireth Abisace 291. a c. slaine ibid. c. Aduersities befell the Israelites 113. c. and why ibid. c. Aduice of Raguel allowed 58. i. of the Elders reiected 206. i. of young men accepted ibid. l. Adulteresse her policie 32. g h. Adulterie 71. b. punished 94. h. Adulterie of Elies sonnes 125. b. Adulterie of Dauid 169. d. Affaires of Ioseph 639 b. Affection of Ioseph toward his brethren 38. l. of Ionathan to Dauid 144 m. Affinitie of Iacob with Rachel 23. b. of Saul and Ionathan with Dauid 144. i. 145. b. of Demetrius with Ptolemey 326. h. Affliction of the Hebrewes with the causes thereof 41 b c d. 46. g. l. 47. e. Africa from whence it tooke his name 19. c. Agag king of the Amalechites taken 139. c. spared and why ibid c. put to death 140. l m. and why ibid. Agar Saraes handmaid 14. m. contemned her mistris and why ibid. m. fled commanded to returne 14. m. 15. a. promised happines 17. c. brought forth Ismael ibid. a. cast out with her sonne 17. b. comforted ibid c. Age of Isaac at his offring 18. g. when he died 27. d. Age of the fathers before the floud 7. a b c. Age of Abraham 20. l. of Iacob 40. m. Aggaeus the prophet encourageth the Iewes 271. b. Agreement of the seditious 700. m. 710. h. Agrippa offereth 100. fat Oxen 413. c. reconciled to the Ilyensians 414. g. confirmeth the Iewes priuiledges 415. c. writeth to the Ephesians 422. h. Agrippa becommeth poore 472. i. k. borroweth money 473. b c e admitted to Caesars
that their auncestors had transgressed the lawes of Moses they should be in danger to be dispossessed of their countrey and abandoned by all men should at length perish miserably When the prophetesse had heard the kings commandement she willed those that were sent vnto her to returne vnto the king and to certifie him from her that God had giuen a sentence against them which might not be reuoked by any praiers whatsoeuer namely that since they had transgressed the law of Moses the people should perish and should be cast out of their countrey and depriued of al their goods that they had and for that they haue not grown to amendment in so long time notwithstanding the prophets had exhorted them to repentance and had foretold the punishment of their impieties which should happen vnto them to the end that they might beleeue that God is God and that he faileth not in any thing that he hath foretold by his prophets Furthermore she said that he forbore as yet to send these afflictions vpon them for Iosias sake who was a vertuous man but that after his decease God would poure his intended punishments vpon the people This prophecie of the woman they signified vnto the king who sent into all parts and assembled the people in Ierusalem commanding the Priests and Leuites and generally all men without distinction of age or person to be present in that conuention Now when they were assembled he first of all caused the sacred bookes to be read and afterwards standing aloft vpon his throne he caused all the people to sweare and promise that they would serue God and keepe Moses lawes Whereupon all of them did willingly approoue whatsoeuer he said promising to doe that whereunto they were exhorted And therewithall offering vp present sacrifices vnto God they besought him to shew himselfe fauourable and mercifull towards them The king likewise commanded the hie priest that if there were any necessarie in the temple which were made by his predecessors in honour of Idols and strange Gods he should cast it out And after that a great quantitie was found therein all of it was gathered togither and burnt and the ashes afterwards were scattered here and there And as touching the Priests that appertained to Idols that were not of the race of Aaron he put them to death When these things were thus executed in Ierusalem he came afterwards to the plaine countrey and all that which Ieroboam had erected there in honour of Idols he vtterly defaced it and the bones of the false Prophets were burnt vpon the altar that Ieroboam had builded This had the prophet foretold that came to Ieroboam at such time as he offered sacrifice and told him in the presence of all the people all that which should happen namely that one of Dauids posteritie called Iosias should doe these abouenamed things which prophecie tooke effect three hundreth sixtie and one yeere after After this King Iosias transported himselfe to the Israelites who had auoided the captiuitie and seruitude of the Assyrians and perswaded them to forsake their impieties and the seruices they had performed to strange Gods and to honour the soueraigne and true God of their fathers and to cleaue vnto him He made a search also thorow euerie house borough and citie fearing least as yet there should be any Idol hidden Hee likewise sought out the chariots that were made by his auncestors in honour of the sunne and all that which was adored whatsoeuer it were and vtterly abolished the same After hee had in this sort purged the countrey he assembled all the people in Ierusalem where he celebrated the feast of vnleauened bread and the solemnitie of Easter Towards the performance whereof he gaue the people young kiddes and lambes to the number of thirtie thousand and three thousand bullocks for burnt offrings and the chiefe amongst the Leuites distributed amongst the other Leuites fiue hundreth lambs and fiue hundreth bullocks Hauing therefore such an abundance of beasts they sacrificed according to the law of Moses the priests taking charge thereof and confirming the rest of the people by their example Neither was there euer such a solemnitie kept by the Hebrewes since the time of Samuel the Prophet because all things were done according to the lawes and auncient customes which were obserued in the time of their fathers After this Iosias liued in peace riches honour and estimation amongst all men and thus finished his life CHAP. V. Diuers exploits of Nechao NEchao King of Aegypt hauing gathered great forces conducted his army towards the floud Euphrates to warre against the Medes and Babylonians who had destroied the empire of Assyria for Nechao affected the gouernment of all Asia Now when he drew neere vnto the Citie of Mende which was vnder Iosias subiection King Iosias denied him passage and would not suffer his army to march thorow his countrey For which cause Nechao sent a Herauld vnto him to let him vnderstand that it was not against him that he made warre but that he bent his course towards Euphrates for which cause he wished him in no sort to hinder his intended iourney least thereby he should be constrained to make warre vpon him But Iosias respected not this demaund of his but resolued himselfe to hinder his passage thorow his countrey And truely I suppose that the destinies pricked him forward to this arrogance to the end he might haue some occasion to doe something against Nechao For whilest he disposed his army and rode from one band to an other being mounted vpon his chariot he was strooken with an arrow that was shot by a certaine Aegyptian which cooled and tempered the spleene he had in warre For feeling himselfe sorely ouerpressed with paine by reason of his wound he commanded his army to retire and returned himselfe to Ierusalem where he died of his wound and was buried with his fathers with great magnificence after he had liued nine and thirtie yeeres and raigned thirtie and one For him the people mourned with great heauinesse lamenting and sorrowing for many daies The Prophet Ieremy also made a deploration ouer him in lamentable verse which is as yet extant euen in these daies This Prophet left in writing those euils that should afterwards happen vnto the citie and the captiuitie wherewith we are entangled at this present and the surprisall of Babylon Neither hath he alone foretold the same but the Prophet Ezechiel hath likewise done the like who first left two bookes written of the same argument These two Prophets were of the race of the Priests But Ieremy kept in Ierusalem from the fourteenth yeere of the raigne of Iosias vntill the destruction of the Citie and temple as in time and place conuenient we will declare setting downe those occurrences that hapned to this Prophet After the death of Iosias heretofore mentioned his sonne Ioaz succeeded him in the kindome at such time as he was
The next day assembling the Iewes he commanded them to demaund certaine fauours at his hands whereupon the high priest answered that he required the exercises of the ordinances of their forefathers and that euerie seuenth yeere they might be exempted from tributes Which was granted them fully They besought him likewise that by his permission the Iewes that were in the countries of Babylon and Media might liue according to their lawes And he promised them willingly to doe all that which they desired He made proclamation also among the people that if any one of them would beare armes with him in liuing according to the custome of their nation he was ready to receiue them with him and diuers tooke pleasure to serue vnder him in the warres After that Alexander had in this sort demeaned himselfe in Ierusalem he marched with his arm against the neighbouring Cities and wheresoeuer he went he was receiued with great affection But the Samaritanes whose Metropolitane Citie at that time was Sichem scituate neere vnto the mountaine of Garizim in which there dwelt diuers Iewes also that were reuolted from their nation seeing how magnificently Alexander had entertained the Iewes they resolued to demeane themselues like Iewes For such is the nature of Samaritanes as we haue declared heretofore that when the Iewes are in affliction they deny all acquaintance with them wherein they confesse the truth but when they perceiue any beame of good aduenture shining vpon them sodainly they vaunt of their alliance saying they are neere akin and of the race of Ephraim and Manasses the sonnes of Ioseph They came therefore to the kings presence and met him neere vnto Ierusalem with great magnificence and demonstration of singular affection towards him And after that Alexander had entertained them they of Sichem approched neere vnto him being accompanied with those men of war that Sanaballath had sent vnto the king beseeching him that he would visit their Citie and honour their temple with his presence whereupon he promised that at his returne hee would visit them They required him also that hee would acquite them of the tribute of the seuenth yeere because they did not sowe in the same He asked them who they were that made that request They answered him that they were Hebrewes but that they were called Sichemites by the Sidonians He asked them againe if they were Iewes and they said they were not Well said he I haue made this grant vnto the Iewes when as therefore I shall returne if I be more particularly informed I shall doe that which shall be held requisite Thus dismissed he the Sichemites but he commanded Sanaballaths men of warre to follow him into Aegypt promising in that place to impart possessions vnto them by lot which afterwards he did enioyning them to liue in garrison in the Citie of Thebais to make good that countrey After Alexanders death his Empire was deuided amongst his successors the temple builded neere vnto the mount Garizim remained intire And if any one were accused in Ierusalē for eating vnlawful meats or for transgressing the Saboth or for any such like fault he fled vnto the Sichemites saying that he was accused vniustly In that time deceased the hie priest Iaddus and Onias his sonne succeeded him This was the estate of them of Ierusalem at that time THE XII BOOKE OF THE ANTIQVITIES OF THE IEWES WRITTEN BY FLAVIVS IOSEPHVS The Contents of the Chapters of the 12. booke 1 Ptolomey the sonne of Lagus is made lord of Ierusalem and the rest of Iudaea by a stratageme and leadeth diuers Iewes with him prisoners into Aegypt 2 Ptolomey Philadelphus translateth the lawes of the Iewes into the Greeke tongue and dismissing diuers captiues of that nation he dedicateth many presents in the temple of God 3 In what estimation the Iewes were with the Kings of Asia and how the freedome of those Cities they built was granted them 4 Ioseph the sonne of Tobias driueth away the Iewes imminent calamitie by reason of his friendship with king Ptolomey 5 The frienship and societie betweene the Lacedemonians and Onias the high Priest of the Iewes 6 The Iewes distracted by seditions call Antiochus to their assistance 7 How Antiochus leading his army to Ierusalem and possessing the Citie spoiled the Temple 8 Antiochus forbidding the Iewes to vse the lawes of their forefathers only the sonne of Asmonaeus called Matthias contemned the king and put his captaines to flight 9 Matthias being dead Iudas his sonne succeeded him 10 Appollonius a captaine of Antiochus is ouercome in Iewry and slaine 11 The ouerthrow and death of Lysias and Gorgias sent out against the Iewes 12 How deuiding their armies Simon ouercame the Tyrians and Ptolemaidans and Iudas the Ammonites 13 The death of Antiochus Epiphanes among the Persians 14 Antiochus Eupator ouerthrowing the army of the Iewes besiegeth Iudas in the temple 15 Antiochus giuing ouer his siege plighteth a league of friendship with Iudas 16 Bacchides a captaine belonging to Demetrius being sent with his army against the Iewes returneth backe to the King without the dispatch of his businesse 17 Nicanor elected captaine after Bacchides and sent out against the Iewes is slaine with his whole army 18 Bacchides sent out once more against the Iewes ouercommeth them 19 How Iudas being ouercome in battell is slaine CHAP. I. Ptolomey the sonne of Lagus ouercommeth and surpriseth both Ierusalem and Iudaea by a stratageme and leadeth away diuers of the Iewes prisoners into Aegypt ALexander King of Macedon hauing ouercome the Persians and established the estate of the Iewes according as it hath beene spoken he departed this life Wherupon his dominions and kingdomes fell into diuers mens hands Antigonus was lord of Asia Seleucus of Babylon and the bordering nations Lysimachus had Hellespont Cassander Macedon and Ptolomey the sonne of Lagus held Aegypt Now when as these men were at discord amongst themselues whilest each of them affected the soueraigntie fought the one with the other diuers great and continuall warres grew to head which afflicted many Cities whereby it came to passe that many of the inhabitants thereof died in fight and all Syria likewise vnder Ptolomey the sonne of Lagus who beyond his merit was called Soter that is as much to say as a Sauiour liued in little safetie He it was that seazed Ierusalem by a stratageme and pollicie for he entred the Citie vpon a Saboth day vnder pretext to offer sacrifice and whilest the Iewes suspected nothing but spent the day in idlenesse and quiet he surprised the Citie without resist and ouerpressed the Citizens with hatefull captiuitie Agatharchides the Cnidian who wrote the actes of Alexanders successors witnesseth no lesse reproching vs of superstition as if intending thereby that by that meanes we lost our Citie He writeth to this effect There is a certaine nation which are called Iewes who inhabite a citie which is called Ierusalem both strong and mighty They suffered it to
in couert vntill such time as the passengers had recouered the plaine Now when the formost were past the ambush consisting of about some fiue hundreth horsemen sodainly charged Herode who was in the rereward when as therefore they had broken the former ranks whom they had met Herode with his troupe that was about him incontinently repulsed them and after he had encouraged his followers and whetted them on to the fight he wrought so much that he made those that fled to turne their faces and to fight so that the Barbarians were put to the sword on all sides The king also pursued them so long vntill at last he recouered that which had been taken by them which was a certaine number of sumpter horses and slaues But being charged afresh by others and they in greater number then those who encountred him at first he likewise rallying his forces togither charged and ouercame them and killing diuers of them he secured the way to those that followed after who al of them acknowledged him for their preseruer and guide When he drew neere vnto Samosata Anthony sent out his army in goodly array to meete and honour him and with all to succour him in that he had heard that the Barbarians had assailed him As soone as he came to Anthonies presence he entertained him kindly and after he had heard that which had befallen him in the way he embraced him in admiration of his vertue and did him great honour as to him whom a little before he had raised to royall dignitie Not long after this Antiochus surrendred the fort of Samosata to Anthony and vpon this occasion the warre was ended Whereupon Anthony committed the prouince with the army to Sosius and after he had commanded him to succour Herode he departed into Aegypt Sosius therefore sent two legions of souldiers before into Iudaea to succour Herode and afterwards hee followed with the rest of his army In the meane while Ioseph died in Iewry on this occasion that ensueth For forgetting his brother Herodes commandement which he gaue him at such time as he repaired to Anthony hee tooke to him fiue companies of souldiers which Machaeras had left him and marching towards Ierico to gather in the fruits of the field he pitched his tents vpon the mountaines And for that the Roman troupes were but newly leuied consisted of those men who were vntrained in the wars and for the most part were gathered out of the countrey of Coelesyria the enemies hauing aduertisement hereof assailed and surprised him in certaine places of disaduantage where there was a hot skirmish betweene them in which Ioseph died fighting valiantly and all his army was discomfited for six companies of them were slaine After that the dead bodies were at Antigonus command he cut off Iosephs head which Phaeroras his brother ransomed for the price of fiftie talents Which done the Galileans reuolting from their gouernours drowned Herodes partakers in the lake so that diuers commotions and troubles were raised in Iewry Machaeras he fortified the Castle of Geth This misfortune of Iosephs was reported to the king in a certaine suburbe of Antioch called Daphne who before the tidings had already conceiued some suspition and feare grounded vpon certaine dreames which gaue him certaine intelligence of his brothers death Departing therefore from thence with all expedition hee arriued neere to the mount Libanus where he tooke about 800. men with him and a Roman legion which he had and from thence came to Ptolemais from whence he departed with his army by night and crossed Galilee with them Wherupon the enemies came forth against him and were ouercome by him and shut vp in a fort from whence they were departed but the day before where Herode assailed them by breake of day But being vnable to offer them any preiudice by reason of the indisposition of the weather he led his men into the villages neer adioyning But when Antonius second legion was come and annexed to his forces they that were within the forte were dismaied and forsooke the same by night So that Herode marched with all diligence to Iericho with an intent to reuenge his brothers death and being encamped neere vnto the same hee banquetted and entertained the chieftaines of his armie and after the feast was ended and he had dismissed his companie hee withdrewe himselfe into his lodging In vvhich place it appeared how much God loued the king for the roofe of the house where hee had solemnized his feast fell downe vvithout hurt to any one vvhomsoeuer for no man was left vvithin it Whence it came to passe that each one perswaded himselfe that Herode vvas beloued by God considering hee had auoyded so great and vnexpected a perill The next day sixe thousand of his enemies came downe from the toppe of the mountaines to fight with him who affrighted the Romanes and their forelorne hope chased Herodes soldiers with darts and stones who was himselfe also hurt in the thigh with an arrow Antigonus sent a captaine to Samaria whose name was Pappas with some soldiers intending thereby to signifie vnto his enemies that he had more men of warre then he needed Pappus drew neere to Machaeras the Romane captaine and as touching Herode he tooke fiue cities by force and put some two thousand of them that were in garrison to the sword and afterwards hauing set the houses on fire he went out to encounter Pappus who was encamped in aborough called Isanas Diuers that came from Iericho Iurie submitted themselues to Herode who drawing neere the enemie who marched forward with great hardines fought with him and ouercame him and being inflamed with a great desire that he had to reuenge his brothers death he pursued them that fled and slue them euen within their borough The houses were incontinently filled with men of war and diuers fled hid themselues vpon the tops therof who were at last taken for the roofes of the houses were beaten downe and he saw that all was filled with soldiers whereby diuers were slaine by stones that were darted at them from aboue and afterwards cast and kild them by heapes which was the most grieuous spectacle of all those that had hapned in those warres to see an infinite number of bodies hidden one vnder another amidst the roumes of the houses This exploite of Herode did verie much abate the courage of his enemie who hereafter expected farre more worse fortune at his hands For a man might haue seene them flie away in heapes and had not a sodaine and forcible tempest fallen vpon them the triumphant army of Herode had incontinently entered Ierusalem with assurance of victory which had made a finall end of all that warre For Antigonus each day bethought him how to fly away and to forsake the citie But for that it was alreadie growen darke Herode commaunded his soldiers to refresh themselues and for that he himselfe was wearie
were partakers of this calamitie who assembled themselues togither in mount Garizin which they account a sacred place But both their assembly their courage did portend their warres and not vvarned by their neighbours harmes nor with any aduise or iudgement considering their ovvne infirmitie and the Romans power began to be tumultuous Vespasian foreseeing this thought it good to preuent them and although all the region of Samaria had garrisōs in it yet for all the great multitude assembled it was thought that the garrisons were able to keepe thē vnder Wherefore he sent thither Caerealis the Tribune of the fift legion with sixe hundreth horsemen and three thousand footmen Caerealis thought it not the best way to goe vnto the mountaine and fight with the whole multitude because a great many of their enemies were vpon it wherefore he commanded his souldiers to beleger the mountaine about at the foote thereof and so keepe them there all the whole day There happened at that time a vehement heate and the Samaritans wanted water for it was then sommer and the people had not prouided themselues of victuals so that many in one day onely for want of drinke dyed of thirst the rest preferred death before the miserie they endured and so fled vnto the Romans of whom Caerealis learned that those that yet remained on the mount were euen dismayed by the miserie they endured Wherefore hee ascended the mountaine and compassing about the enemies with his armie he first exhorted them to yeeld willing them to saue themselues promising them all their liues if they would cast downe their weapons but nothing preuailing with them he set vpon them and killed them all in number eleuen thousand and six hundreth and this was done the seuen twentith day of Iune and these were the miseries that befell the Samaritans CHAP. XIII Howe Iotapata was taken THe Citizens of Iotapata endured this hard siege contrarie to all expectation and in the seuen and fortith day the Romans mounts were raised higher then their walls on this same day one of the Citie fled vnto Vespasian and tould him in what case the citie stoode and how fewe citizens were left and that with dayly watchings and fighting they were far spent whereby they were not able to resist any more and that they might be taken by pollicie if they were followed for in the last part of the night being wearie they ceased from their labour and slept vntill the morning wherefore hee perswaded Vespasian to assault them at that time But Vespasian knowing how faithfull the Iewes were one vnto another how they contemned all punishment gaue little credite vnto this run-away for a little before one of Iotapata being taken could not by any torments be compelled to confesse or disclose the estate of the Citie whom the fire nothing moued so at last he was crucified laughing scorning death yet a probable coniecture which he had perswaded him to giue credite somwhat vnto this traitors words for that he knew no great harme could befall him if he so assaulted the Citie as the traitor willed he cōmanded the man to be kept and made all his armie in readinesse to assault the towne So at the hower appointed hee made towards the walles with silence Titus being the first accompanied with one Domitius Sabinus a Tribune a few of the fifteenth legion who killing the watchmen entred into the citie and after thē Sextus Caerealis and Placidus with their companies so the Castle was taken and the enemies were in the middest of the towne and it was faire day light and yet the townes men knewe nothing being now fast a slepe after their great labours watchings and they that did watch could see nothing there was so thicke a mist by chance that morning the rest neuer wakened till death was at their dore and that they perceiued their calamitie and destruction The Romans mindfull of all that had befallen them in the time of the siege did neither spare nor pitie any one but driuing the people out of the higher part of the citie into the lower part thereof they massacred them all where they that would could not fight for the narrownesse of the place so being cumbred for want of roome sliding downe the bāks for haste their enemies still pursuing them they were easily slaine Many of Iosephs guarde seeing this that they could not fight gathered themselues together in a corner of the citie and slew themselues that the Romans might not kill them But some of the watchmen who first perceiued the citie to be taken fled into a tower and resisted a while this tower was scituate on the North side of the citie and at last being enuironed with their enemies towards euening yeelded and offered themselues to be slaine And the Romans might haue boasted that that victorie had beene without bloudshed on their part had not Antonius a centurion been slaine trecherously For one of them who fled into the caues as many did requested Antonius to giue him his hande in token that he might come out safe and without danger which he doing vnaduisedly straightway the Iewe with a speare smote him in the flancke whereof he presently dyed The Romans that day slew all people that they found and the dayes following they searched all secret places and drewe those out of caues dennes that had fled thither and slew all but women infants so that they tooke away a thousand and two hundreth Captiues and the number of them who were slaine during the siege and at such time as the citie was taken amounted vnto fortie thousand And Vespasian commanded the citie to be destroyed and the castles to bee burned and so Iotapata was taken the thirteenth yeare of Nero his raigne in the first of Iuly CHAP. XIIII How Ioseph was taken and howe he redeemed his life with deedes and wordes BVt especially aboue all others the Romans made diligent search for Ioseph both for the hatred they bare him and also because Vespasian greatly desired to get him for that he◅ being taken the greatest part of the wars were then ended so they sought him amongst the dead and amongst those that were hid but he fortune fauouring him when the citie was taken escaped from the middest of his enemies and lept into a deepe Well which had a large caue on the one side the which they aboue could not perceiue where he founde fortie principall men who had prouision for many dayes The enemies being in euery place hee in the day time lay hid and in the night he went forth to see if he could escape and perceiuing that all places about were diligently watcht for to take him he returned againe into the caue and lay there two daies the third day a certaine woman that had been with them in the caue was taken and so he was descried Then Vespasian sent two tribunes to him to promise
were dead in all the citie 600000. poore folks which were cast out of the gates the others that died were innumerable that when so many died that they were not able to burie thē that then they gathered their bodies togither in the greatest houses adioyning and there shut them vp And that a bushel of corn was solde for a talent which is six hundreth crowns and that after the Citie was compassed with a wal that now they could not go out to gather any more hearbs many were driuen to that necessitie that they raked sinkes and priuies to finde olde dung of Oxen to eate and so the dung that was loathsome to behold was their meate The Romans hearing this were mooued to compassion yet the seditious within the Citie who beheld this miserable sight were nothing mooued nor repented not but suffered them to be brought to that calamitie for their hearts were so blinded by the prouidence of God that they could not see what hanged ouer their heads and ouer the Citie THE SEVENTH BOOKE OF THE WARRES OF THE IEWES WRITTEN BY FLAVIVS IOSEPHVS The Contents of the Chapters of the 7. booke 1 Of the breach made in the wals how the mounts were fired how Sabinus assaulted the wal 2 How the Romans assaulted Anto◅a and were ◅pulsed by the Iewes 3 Of the exceeding valour of Iulian a Roman souldier 4 Iosephs speech perswading the Iewes to yeeld their Citie and how the Iewes fled vnto the Romans 5 Of another battaile the Rampiers being againe builded and of the excursions of the Iewes 6 How the Romans were by the deuice of the Iewes consumed with fire 7 Of the famine amongst the Iewes 8 Of a woman that for hunger did seethe her own sonne 9 How the wall was taken and the Temple burnt 10 How the Temple was set on fire against Titus his will 11 Of the Priests the treasure house and the porch 12 Of the signes and tokens which appeared before the destruction of the Citie 13 Of Titus his rule and gouernment and how the priests were staine 14 Of the pray of the seditious and the burning of the inner part of the Citie 15 How the higher part of the Citie was assaulted and how some of the Iewes fled vnto Titus 16 How the rest of the Citie was taken 17 Of the number of the captiues and them that were slaine 18 A briefe histor◅e of the Citie of Ierusalem 19 How the souldiers were rewarded 20 Of Vespasians sailing how Simon was taken of the spectacles shewes made vpon Vespasian birth-day 21 Of the calamitie of the Iewes amongst the Antiochians 22 How Vespasian at his returne was receiued by the Romans 23 Of Domitians actes against the Germans and Frenchmen 24 Of the riuer Sabbaticus and of the famous triumph of Vespasian and Titus 25 How Herodium and Machaera were taken by Bassus 26 Of the Iewes that were slaine by Bassus and how Iudaea was sold. 27 Of the death of King Antiochus and how the Alans brake into Armenia 28 How Massada the strongest Castle of all was taken and destroyed 29 Of the death of the Sicarians that fled into Alexandria and Thebes 30 How the Temple which Onias built at Alexandria was shut vp 31 Of the Massacre of the Iewes at Cyrene CHAP. I. Of the breach made in the wals and how the mounts were burned and how Sabinus assaulted the wall THE miserie of Ierusalem euery day encreased the seditious being by reason of their miserie more more incited against the people for now the famine was not only amongst the people but amongst them also And it was a miserable sight to see the multitude of dead bodies heaped togither in the Citie from which came a pestilent infectious smel so that it hindred the soldiers from making excursions For they were forced to tread vpon dead bodies as though they were to march along a field couered with dead carcasses Hauing now embrued their hands in the bloud of their countrimen they prepared to resist and fight with their enemies and as it seemeth to me hereby vpbraiding God in that he so deferred to punish them For the greatest part of them did now fight more earnestly then before not for hope of safetie but as despairing of all The Romans though much troubled to get wood to build withall yet did they in one and twentie daies finish their mounts hauing cut downe all the woods neere the citie by nintie furlongs It was miserable to behold that countrey and place before all beset with trees and fertile plants now to lie plaine like a desart all cut downe neither was there any straunger that before time had seene Iudaea and the beautifull suburbs of Ierusalem who now beholding it could abstaine from teares or not lament the woful change so farre different from the former For now this warre extinguished vtterly all signes of beauty neither could one comming sodainly now know the place which he well knew before When the mounts were ended both the Romans and the Iewes greatly feared the Iewes for that except they were destroyed their citie would be presently taken the Romans for that if these were ouerthrowne they knew not how to erect more wanting matter and now their bodies were wearied with labour and their minds with many griefes and molestations But the Romans were more grieued at the calamitie of the citie then the citizens within for the Iewes notwithstanding these miseries did neuerthelesse stoutly defend their wals but the courages of the Romans failed whē they saw that the Iewes policy made their mounts vnprofitable that the strength of the wals resisted their engines that the Iewes boldnesse ouercame their strength in sight and especially seeing that the Iewes hauing endured such calamitie famine and miserie were still more couragious then before so that they deemed their strength not to be ouercome and that their minds were inuincible who were hardened and encouraged by miserie For who were able to abide their forces in prosperitie who by aduersitie were incited to vertue Wherefore the Romans made a stronger watch about their mounts But Iohns followers who were in the Castle Antonia fearing what might ensue if the wall were battered preuented it in what they could before the Rams were set vp and taking firebrands in their hands they assaulted the mount but deceiued with a vaine hope they retired themselues For first of all they seemed to disagree amongst themselues so that they came from their wals one after another and some space betweene euery one so that they came softly and fearefully and briefely not after the manner of the Iewes for they wanted courage rashnes and a flocking togither at once which is proper vnto all that nation and so came more soberly and with lesse courage then they were wont They did also finde the Romans more couragious then of late who so defended their mounts with their bodies and weapons that it was not
God forgot all these laments that another mother would haue had and with an adamant sense stouter then the neuer yeelding rocks did neither forsake her children in their torments nor in their death but in a manner compelled them to perish and neuer sorrowed thereat For being apprehended together with her seuen sonnes she considering Eleazars martyrdome did thus exhort them in the Hebrew tongue O my most deare and louing children let vs hasten to that agonie wherein we may bee a credite to our nation and gaine of God an euerlasting reward let vs without feare present our selues vnto those torments which Eleazars aged bodie endured call to mind our father Abraham of worthie memorie who hauing but one onely sonne did sacrifice him being willed by God so to doe and feared not to bring him to the Altar whome he scarcely in his age obtained Isaak also was willing to bee sacrificed by his father knowing that God was to be obeyed in all things the like may be said of Daniel and the three children beleeue me wee are rather tried then tormented For whatsoeuer this world affordeth is mortall and like a shadowe Thus did this mother arme her childrens minds with fortitude and shee a woman wrought in men manlike minds Last of all her children being all dead shee a worthie mother of so manie champions kneeling downe in the place of torment besought of God an end of this life protesting that shee had not for loue of life so long deferred to die but onely for her childrens sake and that now shee had seene them all seuen triumphing The furie of Antiochus now waxed hot and he commanded this worthie mother to be tormented who was as the tyrant willed stripped naked and hanged vp by the hands and most cruelly whipped her dugges and paps were pulled off and shee put into the red hot frying pan being most willing to follow her childrens steps in torment and lifting vp her eyes and hands to heauen shee praied for all women with child and so yeelded her chast soule to God But Antiochus was strucken with fire from heauen O mistris of iustice who followed thy triumphing children O conquerour of tyrants and a looking glasse for all Martyrs O example of patience not onely to women but to all men that shall bee after thee reuerenced of them that now are and to bee worshipped of them that are to come and to be admited not onely of our nation but of all other people Thy light obscureth the bright shining Moone and though shee fill the world with her brightnesse yet is shee not comparable to thy shining light Seuen lights enuiron thee about daseling the brightnesse of the seuen planets could any Painter expresse or any hand in writing declare the torments of your passions none could with drie eye read or behold them all people would flocke about to see it all people would praise and esteeme him to haue offered a great gift who to Gods glorie had painted that noble stratageme And if any skilfull workman should engraue this Tragedie vpon a sepulchre or in his house doubtlesse he should bee freed from all plague and misfortune But where could a stone bee found able to containe so many torments Therefore the olde man Eleazar the mother and her seuen sonnes are for their nobilitie graced with a sepulchre and great reuerence is done vnto them of all men yea euen by men that are not of our religion and there is a constellation of eight starres ordained as an argument of their iustice and Angels did execute their funerals The tyrant himselfe was astonished to see the constancie of such godly minds And thus haue they found such fauour in the sight of God that they haue obtained remission of the sinnes of our nation for presently after the tyrant was destroyed and Israell there was freed from his tyrannie But Antiochus seeing the greatnesse of their faith and their contempt of death gathered an armie of footemen out of the Hebrewes by whose helpe he terrified his enemies and got great renowne O blessed seede of Abraham behold what benefit the agonie of the mother and her seuen sonnes brought vnto vs their Countrimen let vs persist in this pietie that so we may bee like our forefathers behold the death of a few did end all the miseries and sinnes of our whole nation and you by your Countrimens hands vanquished your persecutors enemies and after that victorie our sinnes were remitted and last of all Antiochus being mad and his entrailes deuoured with wormes hee smelling most like carrion gaue vp the ghost and was euer after death punished for his offence For when he could not make the Citizens of Ierusalem to forsake their law he made warre against the Persians and there receiued that which he deserued It now remaineth that we briefely repeate all that is before said For in her agonie this sacred mother said thus vnto the standers by Whilest it was lawful for me I kept my selfe a virgine and then I married and liued a chast wife and forsooke not my owne house I brought forth such sonnes as I need not be ashamed of and though daunted with my husbands death yet I did not forsake my faith this and many things else shee recounted And what more Shee set before her childrens eyes the example of the Prophets how Abel by his brother was slain Isaak to be offered insteade of a sacrifice how Iacob was banished Ioseph kept in prison Daniel cast before the Lyons the three children into the fierie furnace she rehearsed also vnto them the booke of Esaias where it is said Although thou doe goe through the fire the flame shall not burne thee That of Dauid The iust shall haue much tribulation and Salomon who proposeth the tree of life to such as doe the will of God not omitting that of Ezechiel These drie and withered bones shall liue againe Also that of Moses Canticle I will kill and restore to life and the length of your dayes is in my hand Vnhappie tyrant what did thy caudrons red hot and thy torments profit thee what auailed it thee to cut away their eye lids and to pul out their tongues thou thy selfe for so doing dost now endure farre worse then all these And they whome thou killedst beleeue me enioy euerlasting comfort are now secure of blisse reuenge For they who suffer for Gods sake shall haue happie successe when God the Father of all things shall reward them with life euerlasting that follow him Thus haue I consecrated these worthie memorials which I find in the holy Scriptures of the sacred Machabees to the reading of all men that shall liue in any age heereafter The end of all Iosephus workes FINIS A Tahle of the chiefest and most memorable things which are handled in this Worke. A AAron Moses brother 47. a. commeth to meet him ibid. a. holdeth vp Moses hands 57. a. elected high priest 65. c. his sonnes 66.
345. d. Mithridates king of Pontus slaine 354 h. Mithridates warreth with the Egyptians 360. g. commendeth Antipater to Caesar ibid. Moabites put to flight 114. k l. warre against Iosaphat 223. c. kill one another 224. h. Modle of the Temple 188. k. Modle of the Tabenacle proposed to Moses 60. m. Moderation of Saul 133. c. of Dauid 151. d. Moderation in abundance hardly kept 237. e f. Monarchie of the Assyrians destroyed 247. b. Money taken out of Dauids tombe 290. g. 335. f. distributed 713. e. Monobazus king of Adiabena 513. f. Moone made 3. e. her end and motion ibid. c. Monument of the priesthood confirmed 80 i. Monument of Rachel 132. l. of Ionathan 332. l. of Dauid 335. e. of Iohn the high Priest 709. b. orning what 3 d. Moses the sonne of Amram 42. i k. foretold to afflict the Egyptians estate and aduance the Israelites 41. d. cast into the floud 42. k l. taken out thereof ibid. m. called Moses 43. b. adopted by Pharaohs daughter spurned the crowne ibid. b c d. conducted the Egyptians against the Ethiopians 44. g. c. his victory 44. the Iewes lawmaker 2. k l. more ancient then other lawmakers 791. a. flieth to Raguel and why 45. b. c. marieth his daughter ibid. d. sent to deliuer the Israelites 46. k l. confirmed in his calling ibid. g. h i k. perswadeth Pharao to dismisse the Israelites 47. b c. worketh miracles ibid c d e. instituteth the Passeouer 49. c d. conducteth the Israelites 50. g i. exhorteth them ibid. m. praieth to God 51. c. leadeth them through the red sea 51. d. praiseth God 52. g h. sacrificed to God in Sinai ibid. h. beseecheth God to sweeten the waters 53. d. putteth the people in mind of Gods benefits 54. h i. imploreth Gods helpe ibid. l. striking the rocke bringeth out water 55. e. encourageth the Israelites 56. i k. lifting vp his hands c. 57. a. ascendeth Sinai 58. l. how long remaineth there 60. h. fasted ib. asketh counsell of God c. 68. h. numbreth the people 72. h i. sendeth spies to search the land 73. e. retireth the people into the desart 76. l. sendeth forces against the Madianites â—…7 b. appointeth Iosuah his successor ibid. f. exhorteth the people to obedience 89. a b c. sweareth them to keepe the lawe 98. k. 99. a. exhorteth Iosuah 98. m. commaundeth the Iewes to heare the lawe 792. h i. dieth 99. e. Mother eateth her child 228 g h. 734. i k. Mother of the seuen brethren 805. a. 808. k. 810. g. c. Moueables of all sorts 103. f. Mourning of Ruben for Ioseph 30. i. of the Romans 638. l m. of them in Ierusalem 699. a. Mourning for thirtie daies 94. l m. Mourning for Moses death 99. b c. for Saul his sons 158. k. for Abners 162. i. for Herods 451. c. Mountaine of Sinai 45. f. 47. f. Mounts builded lost 719. e f. Mounts raised neere the Temple 732. g. Multiplication of Iacobs posteritie 42. h. Multitude of busines 57. f. of dead carcasses 725. f. Mundus defileth Paulina 467. a c. banished ibid. Murmur of the Israelites 53. f. 74. g. Murther of Simeon and Leui 27. a. Murther of Azael 160. k. of Abner 162. g. of Iorams brethren 230. k. of infants foretold 230. g. Murther of Saul punished 159 f. of Isboseth 163. d. Musicke by whom inuented 5. f. Mutabilitie of fortune 668. l. m. Mutinie of Chore and his complices 77. b c c. Mutinie about the golden Eagle 448. h. Mutinie against Archelaus 452. g h c. N Naas king of the Ammonites 133. c. his outrages offred the Israelites ibid. e f. proposeth hard conditions of peace 134. g. granteth to the inhabitants of Iabes a truce ibid. h. is slaine 134. l. Nabals flocks spared 152. g. his currish answere to Dauids men ibid. i died for griefe 153. a. Nabathaea the countrey of Ismaels posteritie 17. c. Nabathaeans spoiled 330. i. Naboth falsely accused 217. d. stoned to death ibid. d. Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon 250. m. vanquisheth Nechao ibid. 251. a. exacteth tribute and slaieth Ioachim 251. a. establish Ioachin king ibid. e. besiegeth and destroyeth Ierusalem 254. i. 255. a. dreameth a dreame 258. k. erecreth an Idol 259. c conuersed with beasts 260. g h. conquereth the rebels 771. e. builded a pallace 772. g h. besiegeth Tyre 773. b. his death 260. h. Nadab Aarons sonne burned and why 67. a. Nadab Ieroboams sonne 212. g. his impietie and death ibid. g. Name of Saul famous 134. l. Naming of the creatures 3. f. Names of Regions and Nations 10. g. Noami her sorrow 123. e f. returneth into her countrey 124. g. her counsell to Ruth ibid. i k. Norbanus for the Iewes 422. k. Narration of the Arabian wars 432. l. Nathan the Prophet 166. h. forbiddeth Dauid to build the Temple ibid. h. reprooued Dauid 170. m 171. a b. Natiuitie of Iacob and Esau 20 m. two nations proceed of them ibid. m. Nation of the Iewes mixed with all people 747. b. Nations whence descended 10. g c. 11. a. c. Nature forbids a man to kill himselfe 659. c. f. Nature of the Idumaeans 677. b. Nauie of Salomon 202. k. Naum the Prophet 240. l. foretelleth the ouerthrow of the Assyrians ibid. l. Nazarites 81. d. Nechao his exploits 250 h. is ouercome ibid. m. 251. a. 252. l m. Necessitie a sharpe weapon 651. a. Neglect of Gods seruice cause of all euill 207. e f. Negligence of Sauls guard 153. c. d e. Nehemias his sadnes and why 275. c d. inciteth the people to build the wals c. ibid. e. his ardent care in building them 276. h. his death ibid. k. Nemrod 9. b c. Sonne of Chus 11. a. Nephanus and Sabach Dauids captaines 182. m. 183. a. Nephewes of Iacob 39. e. of Herode 598. g h. Nepthalim the sonne of Iacob 24 k. his sonnes 40. g. Nero proclaimed Emperour 521. e. his murders ibid. e f. 622. h. amased at the actes of the Iewes 645. a. sendeth Vespasian to gouerne Syria 745. b. Nicanor labereth to surprise Iudas 314. g. slaine 315. a. Nicanor knowne to Ioseph 658. k. Nicanor wounded 709. b. Nicaule Queene of Ethiopia 202. h. resorteth to Salomon ibid. l. wondreth and praiseth Salomons wisedome 202. m. 203. a. giueth him presents ibid b. Nicholaus Oration 414. i. c. Nicholaus the Historiographer reproued 423. c. Nicholaus accuseth Syllaeus excuseth Herode 432. i. k. prosecuteth the kings accusation 444. k. 445. a c. excuseth Archelaus 454. k. 609. c. defendeth Herod and Archelaus 459. b. 613. a. Nicon the Romans great Ram 711. a. Niger slaine c. 683. c d. Nilus 4. h. maketh Aegypt fertile 40. i. how farre nauigable 694. k. Niniue admonished 239. a. her destruction prophecied 240. l. effected 247. b. Nisan a moneth with the Hebrewes 49. c. Noah the sonne of Lamech 6. m. admonisheth the wicked ibid. k l. buildeth the Arke 6. l. saued with