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[32]
But afterwards he found himself oppressed with old age, and not able
to do what he used to do, so he committed the government and the care of
the multitude to his sons, - the elder of whom was called Joel, and the
name of the younger was Abiah. He also enjoined them to reside and judge
the people, the one at the city of Bethel, and the other at Beersheba,
and divided the people into districts that should be under the jurisdiction
of each of them. Now these men afford us an evident example and demonstration
how some children are not of the like dispositions with their parents;
but sometimes perhaps good and moderate, though born of wicked parents;
and sometimes showing themselves to be wicked, though born of good parents:
for these men turning aside from their father's good courses, and taking
a course that was contrary to them, perverted justice for the 'filthy lucre
of gifts and bribes, and made their determinations not according to truth,
but according to bribery, and turned aside to luxury, and a costly way
of living; so that as, in the first place, they practiced what was contrary
to the will of God, so did they, in the second place, what was contrary
to the will of the prophet their father, who had taken a great deal of
care, and made a very careful provision that the multitude should be righteous.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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