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Now Joseph was already slain in Judea, in the manner following:
He forgot what charge his brother Herod had given him when he went to Antony;
and when he had pitched his camp among the mountains, for Macheras had
lent him five regiments, with these he went hastily to Jericho, in :order
to reap the corn thereto belonging; and as the Roman regiments were but
newly raised, and were unskillful in war, for they were in great part collected
out of Syria, he was attacked by the enemy, and caught in those places
of difficulty, and was himself slain, as he was fighting bravely, and the
whole army was lost, for there were six regiments slain. So when Antigonus
had got possession of the dead bodies, he cut off Joseph's head, although
Pheroras his brother would have redeemed it at the price of fifty talents.
After which defeat, the Galileans revolted from their commanders, and took
those of Herod's party, and drowned them in the lake, and a great part
of Judea was become seditious; but Macheras fortified the place Gitta [in
Samaria].
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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