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At this time it was that the garrison in the citadel of Jerusalem,
with the Jewish runagates, did a great deal of harm to the Jews; for the
soldiers that were in that garrison rushed out upon the sudden, and destroyed
such as were going up to the temple in order to offer their sacrifices,
for this citadel adjoined to and overlooked the temple. When these misfortunes
had often happened to them, Judas resolved to destroy that garrison; whereupon
he got all the people together, and vigorously besieged those that were
in the citadel. This was in the hundred and fiftieth year of the dominion
of the Seleucidse. So he made engines of war, and erected bulwarks, and
very zealously pressed on to take the citadel. But there were not a few
of the runagates who were in the place that went out by night into the
country, and got together some other wicked men like themselves, and went
to Antiochus the king, and desired of him that he would not suffer them
to be neglected, under the great hardships that lay upon them from those
of their own nation; and this because their sufferings were occasioned
on his father's account, while they left the religious worship of their
fathers, and preferred that which he had commanded them to follow: that
there was danger lest the citadel, and those appointed to garrison it by
the king, should be taken by Judas, and those that were with him, unless
he would send them succors. When Antiochus, who was but a child, heard
this, he was angry, and sent for his captains and his friends, and gave
order that they should get an army of mercenaries together, with such men
also of his own kingdom as were of an age fit for war. Accordingly, an
army was collected of about a hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand
horsemen, and thirty-two elephants.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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