Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
book:
whiston chapter:
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
View text chunked by:
Table of Contents:
book 1
book 2
book 3
book 6
book 7
book 8
book 10
book 12
book 13
book 14
book 15
book 16
book 18
[215]
When Haman had made this petition, the king both forgave him the
money, and granted him the men, to do what he would with them. So Haman,
having gained what he desired, sent out immediately a decree, as from the
king, to all nations, the contents whereof were these: "Artaxerxes,
the great king, to the rulers of the hundred twenty and seven provinces,
from India to Ethiopia, sends this writing. Whereas I have governed many
nations, and obtained the dominions of all the habitable earth, according
to my desire, and have not been obliged to do any thing that is insolent
or cruel to my subjects by such my power, but have showed myself mild and
gentle, by taking care of their peace and good order, and have sought how
they might enjoy those blessings for all time to come. And whereas I have
been kindly informed by Haman, who, on account of his prudence and justice,
is the first in my esteem, and in dignity, and only second to myself, for
his fidelity and constant good-will to me, that there is an ill-natured
nation intermixed with all mankind, that is averse to our laws, and not
subject to kings, and of a different conduct of life from others, that
hateth monarchy, and of a disposition that is pernicious to our affairs,
I give order that all these men, of whom Haman our second father hath informed
us, be destroyed, with their wives and children, and that none of them
be spared, and that none prefer pity to them before obedience to this decree.
And this I will to be executed on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month
of this present year, that so when all that have enmity to us are destroyed,
and this in one day, we may be allowed to lead the rest of our lives in
peace hereafter." Now when this decree was brought to the cities,
and to the country, all were ready for the destruction and entire abolishment
of the Jews, against the day before mentioned; and they were very hasty
about it at Shushan, in particular. Accordingly, the king and Haman spent
their time in feasting together with good cheer and wine, but the city
was in disorder.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
Tufts University provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
show
Browse Bar
hide
Places (automatically extracted)
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.
hide
References (3 total)
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
(3):
- LSJ, ἀνυπό-τακτος
- LSJ, ἐξολέθρ-ευσις
- LSJ, κηδεμον-ικός
hide
Search
hideStable Identifiers
hide
Display Preferences