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Now as these men were ravaging Carmel, many of the Jews ran together
to Antigonus, and showed themselves ready to make an incursion into the
country; so he sent them before into that place called Drymus, [the woodland
1 ]
to seize upon the place; whereupon a battle was fought between them, and
they drove the enemy away, and pursued them, and ran after them as far
as Jerusalem, and as their numbers increased, they proceeded as far as
the king's palace; but as Hyrcanus and Phasaelus received them with a strong
body of men, there happened a battle in the market-place, in which Herod's
party beat the enemy, and shut them up in the temple, and set sixty men
in the houses adjoining as a guard to them. But the people that were tumultuous
against the brethren came in, and burnt those men; while Herod, in his
rage for killing them, attacked and slew many of the people, till one party
made incursions on the other by turns, day by day, in the way of ambushes,
and slaughters were made continually among them.
1 This large and noted wood, or woodland, belonging to Carmel, called apago by the Septuagint, is mentioned in the Old Testament, 2 Kings 19:23; Isaiah 37:24, and by I Strabo, B. XVI. p. 758, as both Aldrich and Spanheim here remark very pertinently.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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