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[116]
Now in the ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah, on the tenth day
of the tenth month, the king of Babylon made a second expedition against
Jerusalem, and lay before it eighteen months, and besieged it with the
utmost application. There came upon them also two of the greatest calamities
at the same time that Jerusalem was besieged, a famine and a pestilential
distemper, and made great havoc of them. And though the prophet Jeremiah
was in prison, he did not rest, but cried out, and proclaimed aloud, and
exhorted the multitude to open their gates, and admit the king of Babylon,
for that if they did so, they should be preserved, and their whole families;
but if they did not so, they should be destroyed; and he foretold, that
if any one staid in the city, he should certainly perish by one of these
ways, - either be consumed by the famine, or slain by the enemy's sword;
but that if he would flee to the enemy, he should escape death. Yet did
not these rulers who heard believe him, even when they were in the midst
of their sore calamities; but they came to the king, and in their anger
informed him what Jeremiah had said, and accused him, and complained of
the prophet as of a madman, and one that disheartened their minds, and
by the denunciation of miseries weakened the alacrity of the multitude,
who were otherwise ready to expose themselves to dangers for him, and for
their country, while he, in a way of threatening, warned them to flee to
the enemy, and told them that the city should certainly be taken, and be
utterly destroyed.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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