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However, the rest of the [Jewish] multitude did not lay aside their
quarrels with him, when the [foreign] auxiliaries were gone; but they had
a perpetual war with Alexander, until he had slain the greatest part of
them, and driven the rest into the city Berneselis; and when he had demolished
that city, he carried the captives to Jerusalem. Nay, his rage was grown
so extravagant, that his barbarity proceeded to the degree of impiety;
for when he had ordered eight hundred to be hung upon crosses in the midst
of the city, he had the throats of their wives and children cut before
their eyes; and these executions he saw as he was drinking and lying down
with his concubines. Upon which so deep a surprise seized on the people,
that eight thousand of his opposers fled away the very next night, out
of all Judea, whose flight was only terminated by Alexander's death; so
at last, though not till late, and with great difficulty, he, by such actions,
procured quiet to his kingdom, and left off fighting any more.
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