CONTENTS
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. The Constitution Of The World And
The Disposition Of The Elements.
CHAPTER 2. Concerning The Posterity Of Adam,
And The Ten Generations From Him To The Deluge.
CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Flood; And After What
Manner Noah Was Saved In An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards Dwelt
In The Plain Of Shinar.
CHAPTER 4. Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And
The Confusion Of Tongues.
CHAPTER 5. After What Manner The Posterity Of
Noah Sent Out Colonies, And Inhabited The Whole Earth.
CHAPTER 6. How Every Nation Was Denominated
From Their First Inhabitants.
CHAPTER 7. How Abram Our Forefather Went Out Of
The Land Of The Chaldeans, And Lived In The Land Then Called Canaan But
Now Judea.
CHAPTER 8. That When There Was A Famine In
Canaan, Abram Went Thence Into Egypt; And After He Had Continued There A
While He Returned Back Again.
CHAPTER 9. The Destruction Of The Sodomites By
The Assyrian War.
CHAPTER 10. How Abram Fought With The
Assyrians, And Overcame Them, And Saved The Sodomite Prisoners, And Took
From The Assyrians The Prey They Had Gotten.
CHAPTER 11. How God Overthrew The Nation Of The
Sodomites, Out Of His Wrath Against Them For Their Sins.
CHAPTER 12. Concerning Abimelech; And
Concerning Ismael The Son Of Abraham; And Concerning The Arabians, Who
Were His Posterity.
CHAPTER 13. Concerning Isaac The Legitimate Son
Of Abraham.
CHAPTER 14. Concerning Sarah Abraham's Wife;
And How She Ended Her Days.
CHAPTER 15. How The Nation Of The Troglodytes
Were Derived From Abraham By Keturah.
CHAPTER 16. How Isaac Took Rebeka To Wife.
CHAPTER 17. Concerning The Death Of Abraham.
CHAPTER 18. Concerning The Sons Of Isaac, Esau
And Jacob; Of Their Nativity And Education.
CHAPTER 19. Concerning Jacob's Flight Into
Mesopotamia, By Reason Of The Fear He Was In Of His Brother.
CHAPTER 20. Concerning The Meeting Of Jacob And
Esau.
CHAPTER 21. Concerning The Violation Of Dina's
Chastity.
CHAPTER 22. How Isaac Died, And Was Buried In
Hebron.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. How Esau And Jacob, Isaac's Sons
Divided Their Habitation; And Esau Possessed Idumea And Jacob Canaan.
CHAPTER 2. How Joseph, The Youngest Of Jacob's
Sons, Was Envied By His Brethren, When Certain Dreams Had Foreshown His
Future Happiness.
CHAPTER 3. How Joseph Was Thus Sold By His
Brethren Into Egypt, By Reason Of Their Hatred To Him; And How He There
Grew Famous And Illustrious And Had His Brethren Under His Power.
CHAPTER 4. Concerning The Signal Chastity Of
Joseph.
CHAPTER 5. What Things Befell Joseph In
Prison.
CHAPTER 6. How Joseph When He Was Become
Famous In Egypt, Had His Brethren In Subjection.
CHAPTER 7. The Removal Of Joseph's Father With
All His Family, To Him, On Account Of The Famine.
CHAPTER 8. Of The Death Of Jacob And Joseph.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Afflictions That
Befell The Hebrews In Egypt, During Four Hundred Years. [16]
CHAPTER 10. How Moses Made War With The
Ethiopians.
CHAPTER 11. How Moses Fled Out Of Egypt Into
Midian.
CHAPTER 12. Concerning The Burning Bush And
The Rod Of Moses.
CHAPTER 13. How Moses And Aaron Returned Into
Egypt To Pharaoh.
CHAPTER 14. Concerning The Ten Plagues Which
Came Upon The Egyptians.
CHAPTER 15. How The Hebrews Under The Conduct
Of Moses Left Egypt.
CHAPTER 16. How The Sea Was Divided Asunder
For The Hebrews, When They Were Pursued By The Egyptians, And So Gave
Them An Opportunity Of Escaping From Them.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. How Moses When He Had Brought The
People Out Of Egypt Led Them To Mount Sinai; But Not Till They Had
Suffered Much In Their Journey.
CHAPTER 2. How The Amalekites And The
Neighbouring Nations, Made War With The Hebrews And Were Beaten And Lost
A Great Part Of Their Army.
CHAPTER 3. That Moses Kindly Received-His
Father-In-Law, Jethro, When He Came To Him To Mount Sinai.
CHAPTER 4. How Raguel Suggested To Moses To
Set His People In Order, Under Their Rulers Of Thousands, And Rulers Of
Hundreds, Who Lived Without Order Before; And How Moses Complied In All
Things With His Father-In-Law's Admonition.
CHAPTER 5. How Moses Ascended Up To Mount
Sinai, And Received Laws From God, And Delivered Them To The Hebrews.
CHAPTER 6. Concerning The Tabernacle Which
Moses Built In The Wilderness For The Honor Of God And Which Seemed To
Be A Temple.
CHAPTER 7. Concerning The Garments Of The
Priests, And Of The High Priest.
CHAPTER 8. Of The Priesthood Of Aaron.
CHAPTER 9. The Manner Of Our Offering
Sacrifices.
CHAPTER 10. Concerning The Festivals; And How
Each Day Of Such Festival Is To Be Observed.
CHAPTER 11. Of The Purifications.
CHAPTER 12. Several Laws.
CHAPTER 13. Moses Removed From Mount Sinai,
And Conducted The People To The Borders Of The Canaanites.
CHAPTER 14. How Moses Sent Some Persons To
Search Out The Land Of The Canaanites, And The Largeness Of Their
Cities; And Further That When Those Who Were Sent Were Returned, After
Forty Days And Reported That They Should Not Be A Match For Them, And
Extolled The Strength Of The Canaanites The Multitude Were Disturbed And
Fell Into Despair; And Were Resolved To Stone Moses, And To Return Back
Again Into Egypt, And Serve The Egyptians.
CHAPTER 15. How Moses Was Displeased At This,
And Foretold That God Was Angry And That They Should Continue In The
Wilderness For Forty Years And Not, During That Time, Either Return Into
Egypt Or Take Possession Of Canaan.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. Fight Of The Hebrews With The
Canaanites Without The Consent Of Moses; And Their Defeat.
CHAPTER 2. The Sedition Of Corah And Of The
Multitude Against Moses, And Against His Brother, Concerning The
Priesthood.
CHAPTER 3. How Those That Stirred Up This
Sedition Were Destroyed, According To The Will Of God; And How Aaron,
Moses's Brother Both He And His Posterity, Retained The Priesthood.
CHAPTER 4. What Happened To The Hebrews During
Thirty-Eight Years In The Wilderness.
CHAPTER 5. How Moses Conquered Sihon And Og
Kings Of The Amorites, And Destroyed Their Whole Army And Then Divided
Their Land By Lot To Two Tribes And A Half Of The Hebrews.
CHAPTER 6. Concerning Balaam The Prophet And
What Kind Of Man He Was.
CHAPTER 7. How The Hebrews Fought With The
Midianites, And Overcame Them.
CHAPTER 8. The Polity Settled By Moses; And
How He Disappeared From Among Mankind.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. How Joshua, The Commander Of The
Hebrews, Made War With The Canaanites, And Overcame Them, And Destroyed
Them, And Divided Their Land By Lot To The Tribes Of Israel.
CHAPTER 2. How, After The Death Of Joshua
Their Commander, The Israelites Transgressed The Laws Of Their Country,
And Experienced Great Afflictions; And When There Was A Sedition Arisen,
The Tribe Of Benjamin Was Destroyed Excepting Only Six Hundred Men.
CHAPTER 3. How The Israelites After This
Misfortune Grew Wicked And Served The Assyrians; And How God Delivered
Them By Othniel, Who Ruled Over Them Forty Years.
CHAPTER 4. How Our People Served The Moabites
Eighteen Years, And Were Then Delivered From Slavery By One Ehud Who
Retained The Dominion Eighty Years.
CHAPTER 5. How The Canaanites Brought The
Israelites Under Slavery For Twenty Years; After Which They Were
Delivered By Barak And Deborah, Who Ruled Over Them For Forty Years.
CHAPTER 6. How The Midianites And Other
Nations Fought Against The Israelites And Beat Them, And Afflicted Their
Country For Seven Years, How They Were Delivered By Gideon, Who Ruled
Over The Multitude For Forty Years.
CHAPTER 7. That The Judges Who Succeeded
Gideon Made War With The Adjoining Nations For A Long Time.
CHAPTER 8. Concerning The Fortitude Of Samson,
And What Mischiefs He Brought Upon The Philistines.
CHAPTER 9. How Under Eli's Government Of The
Israelites Booz Married Ruth, From Whom Came Obed The Grandfather Of
David.
CHAPTER 10. Concerning The Birth Of Samuel;
And How He Foretold The Calamity That Befell The Sons Of Eli.
CHAPTER 11. Herein Is Declared What Befell The
Sons Of Eli, The Ark, And The People And How Eli Himself Died Miserably.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. The Destruction That Came Upon The
Philistines, And Upon Their Land, By The Wrath Of Go On Account Of Their
Having Carried The Ark Away Captive; And After What Manner They Sent It
Back To The Hebrews.
CHAPTER 2. The Expedition Of The Philistines
Against The Hebrews And The Hebrews' Victory Under The Conduct Of Samuel
The Prophet, Who Was Their General.
CHAPTER 3. How Samuel When He Was So Infirm
With Old Age That He Could Not Take Care Of The Public Affairs Intrusted
Them To His Sons; And How Upon The Evil Administration Of The Government
By Them The Multitude Were So Angry, That They Required To Have A King
To Govern Them, Although Samuel Was Much Displeased Thereat.
CHAPTER 4. The Appointment Of A King Over The
Israelites, Whose Name Was Saul; And This By The Command Of God.
CHAPTER 5. Saul's Expedition Against The
Nation Of The Ammonites And Victory Over Them And The Spoils He Took
From Them.
CHAPTER 6. How The Philistines Made Another
Expedition Against The Hebrews And Were Beaten.
CHAPTER 7. Saul's War With The Amalekites, And
Conquest Of Them.
CHAPTER 8. How, Upon Saul's Transgression Of
The Prophet's Commands, Samuel Ordained Another Person To Be King
Privately, Whose Name Was David, As God Commanded Him.
CHAPTER 9. How The Philistines Made Another
Expedition Against The Hebrews Under The Reign Of Saul; And How They
Were Overcome By David's Slaying Goliath In Single Combat.
CHAPTER 10. Saul Envies David For His Glorious
Success, And Takes An Occasion Of Entrapping Him, From The Promise He
Made Him Of Giving Him His Daughter In Marriage; But This Upon Condition
Of His Bringing Him Six Hundred Heads Of The Philistines.
CHAPTER 11. How David, Upon Saul's Laying
Snares For Him, Did Yet Escape The Dangers He Was In By The Affection
And Care Of Jonathan And The Contrivances Of His Wife Michal: And How He
Came To Samuel The Prophet.
CHAPTER 12. How David Fled To Ahimelech And
Afterwards To The Kings Of The Philistines And Of The Moabites, And How
Saul Slew Ahimelech And His Family.
CHAPTER 13. How David, When He Had Twice The
Opportunity Of Killing Saul Did Not Kill Him. Also Concerning The Death
Of Samuel And Nabal.
CHAPTER 14. Now Saul Upon God's Not Answering
Him Concerning The Fight With The Philistines Desired A Necromantic
Woman To Raise Up The Soul Of Samuel To Him; And How He Died, With His
Sons Upon The Overthrow Of The Hebrews In Battle.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. How David Reigned Over One Tribe At
Hebron While The Son Of Saul Reigned Over The Rest Of The Multitude; And
How, In The Civil War Which Then Arose Asahel And Abner Were Slain.
CHAPTER 2. That Upon The Slaughter Of
Ishbosheth By The Treachery Of His Friends, David Received The Whole
Kingdom.
CHAPTER 3. How David Laid Siege To Jerusalem;
And When He Had Taken The City, He Cast The Canaanites Out Of It, And
Brought In The Jews To Inhabit Therein.
CHAPTER 4. That When David Had Conquered The
Philistines Who Made War Against Him At Jerusalem, He Removed The Ark To
Jerusalem And Had A Mind To Build A Temple.
CHAPTER 5. How David Brought Under The
Philistines, And The Moabites, And The Kings Of Sophene And Of Damascus,
And Of The Syrians As Also The Idumeans, In War; And How He Made A
League With The King Of Hamath; And Was Mindful Of The Friendship That
Jonathan, The Son Of Saul, Had Borne Him.
CHAPTER 6. How The War Was Waged Against The
Ammonites And Happily Concluded.
CHAPTER 7. How David Fell In Love With
Bathsheba, And Slew Her Husband Uriah, For Which He Is Reproved By
Nathan.
CHAPTER 8. How Absalom Murdered Amnon, Who Had
Forced His Own Sister; And How He Was Banished And Afterwards Recalled
By David.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Insurrection Of
Absalom Against David And Concerning Ahithophel And Hushai; And
Concerning Ziba And Shimei; And How Ahithophel Hanged Himself.
CHAPTER 10. How, When Absalom Was Beaten, He
Was Caught In A Tree By His Hair And Was Slain.
CHAPTER 11. How David, When He Had Recovered
His Kingdom, Was Reconciled To Shimei, And To Ziba; And Showed A Great
Affection To Barzillai; And How, Upon The Rise Of A Sedition, He Made
Amasa Captain Of His Host, In Order To Pursue Seba; Which Amasa Was
Slain By Joab.
CHAPTER 12. How The Hebrews Were Delivered
From A Famine When The Gibeonites Had Caused Punishment To Be Inflicted
For Those Of Them That Had Been Slain: As Also, What Great Actions Were
Performed Against The Philistines By David, And The Men Of Valor About
Him.
CHAPTER 13. That When David Had Numbered the
People, They Were Punished; and How the Divine Compassion Restrained
That Punishment.
CHAPTER 14. That David Made Great Preparations
For The House Of God; And That, Upon Adonijah's Attempt To Gain The
Kingdom, He Appointed Solomon To Reign.
CHAPTER 15. What Charge David Gave Tohis Son
Solomon At The Approach Of His Death, And How Many Things He Left Him
For The Building Of The Temple.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. How Solomon, When He Had Received
The Kingdom Took Off His Enemies.
CHAPTER 2. Concerning The Wife Of Solomon;
Concerning His Wisdom And Riches; And Concerning What He Obtained Of
Hiram For The Building Of The Temple.
CHAPTER 3. Of The Building Of This Temple
CHAPTER 4. How Solomon Removed The Ark Into
The Temple How He Made Supplication To God, And Offered Public
Sacrifices To Him.
CHAPTER 5. How Solomon Built Himself A Royal
Palace, Very Costly And Splendid; And How He Solved The Riddles Which
Were Sent Him By Hiram.
CHAPTER 6. How Solomon Fortified The City Of
Jerusalem, And Built Great Cities; And How He Brought Some Of The
Canaanites Into Subjection, And Entertained The Queen Of Egypt And Of
Ethiopia.
CHAPTER 7. How Solomon Grew Rich, And Fell
Desperately In Love With Women And How God, Being Incensed At It, Raised
Up Ader And Jeroboam Against Him. Concerning The Death Of Solomon.
CHAPTER 8. How, Upon The Death Of Solomon The
People Forsook His Son Rehoboam, And Ordained Jeroboam King Over The Ten
Tribes.
CHAPTER 9. How Jadon The Prophet Was Persuaded
By Another Lying Prophet And Returned [To Bethel,] And Was Afterwards
Slain By A Lion. As Also What Words The Wicked Prophet Made Use Of To
Persuade The King, And Thereby Alienated His Mind From God.
CHAPTER 10. Concerning Rehoboam, And How God
Inflicted Punishment Upon Him For His Impiety By Shishak [King Of
Egypt].
CHAPTER 11. Concerning The Death Of A Son Of
Jeroboam. How Jeroboam Was Beaten By Abijah Who Died A Little Afterward
And Was Succeeded In His Kingdom By Asa. And Also How, After The Death
Of Jeroboam Baasha Destroyed His Son Nadab And All The House Of
Jeroboam.
CHAPTER 12. How Zerah, King Of The Ethiopians,
Was Beaten By Asa; And How Asa, Upon Baasha's Making War Against Him,
Invited The King Of The Damascens To Assist Him; And How, On The
Destruction Of The House Of Baasha Zimri Got The Kingdom As Did His Son
Ahab After Him.
CHAPTER 13. How Ahab When He Had Taken Jezebel
To Wife Became More Wicked Than All The Kings That Had Been Before Him;
Of The Actions Of The Prophet Elijah, And What Befell Naboth.
CHAPTER 14. How Hadad King Of Damascus And Of
Syria, Made Two Expeditions Against Ahab And Was Beaten.
CHAPTER 15. Concerning Jehoshaphat The King Of
Jerusalem And How Ahab Made An Expedition Against The Syrians And Was
Assisted Therein By Jehoshaphat, But Was Himself Overcome In Battle And
Perished Therein.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. Concerning Jehoshaphat Again; How
He Constituted Judges And, By God's Assistance Overcame His Enemies.
CHAPTER 2. Concerning Ahaziah; The King Of
Israel; And Again Concerning The Prophet Elijah.
CHAPTER 3. How Joram And Jehoshaphat Made An
Expedition Against The Moabites; As Also Concerning The Wonders Of
Elisha; And The Death Of Jehoshaphat.
CHAPTER 4. Jehoram Succeeds Jehoshaphat; How
Joram, His Namesake, King Of Israel, Fought With The Syrians; And What
Wonders Were Done By The Prophet Elisha.
CHAPTER 5. Concerning The Wickedness Of
Jehoram King O Jerusalem; His Defeat And Death.
CHAPTER 6. How Jehu Was Anointed King, And
Slew Both Joram And Ahaziah; As Also What He Did For The Punishment Of
The Wicked.
CHAPTER 7. How Athaliah Reigned Over Jerusalem
For Five [Six] Years When Jehoiada The High Priest Slew Her And Made
Jehoash, The Son Of Ahaziah, King.
CHAPTER 8. Hazael Makes An Expedition Against
The People Of Israel And The Inhabitants Of Jerusalem. Jehu Dies, And
Jehoahaz Succeeds In The Government. Jehoash The King Of Jerusalem At
First Is Careful About The Worship Of God But Afterwards Becomes Impious
And Commands Zechariah To Be Stoned. When Jehoash [King Of Judah] Was
Dead, Amaziah Succeeds Him In The Kingdom.
CHAPTER 9. How Amaziah Made An Expedition
Against The Edomites And Amalekites And Conquered Them; But When He
Afterwards Made War Against Joash, He Was Beaten And Not Long After Was
Slain, And Uzziah Succeeded In The Government.
CHAPTER 10. Concerning Jeroboam King Of Israel
And Jonah The Prophet; And How After The Death Of Jeroboam His Son
Zachariah Took The Government. How Uzziah, King Of Jerusalem, Subdued
The Nations That Were Round About Him; And What Befell Him When He
Attempted To Offer Incense To God.
CHAPTER 11. How Zachariah Shallum, Menahem
Pekahiah And Pekah Took The Government Over The Israelites; And How Pul
And Tiglath-Pileser Made An Expedition Against The Israelites. How
Jotham, The Son Of Uzziah Reigned Over The Tribe Of Judah; And What
Things Nahum Prophesied Against The Assyrians.
CHAPTER 12. How Upon The Death Of Jotham, Ahaz
Reigned In His Stead; Against Whom Rezin, King Of Syria And Pekah King
Of Israel, Made War; And How Tiglath-Pileser, King Of Assyria Came To
The Assistance Of Ahaz, And Laid Syria Waste And Removing The Damascenes
Into Media Placed Other Nations In Their Room.
CHAPTER 13. How Pekah Died By The Treachery Of
Hoshea Who Was A Little After Subdued By Shalmaneser; And How Hezekiah
Reigned Instead Of Ahaz; And What Actions Of Piety And Justice He Did.
CHAPTER 14. How Shalmaneser Took Samaria By
Force And How He Transplanted The Ten Tribes Into Media, And Brought The
Nation Of The Cutheans Into Their Country [In Their Room].
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. How Sennacherib Made An Expedition
Against Hezekiah; What Threatenings Rabshakeh Made To Hezekiah When
Sennacherib Was Gone Against The Egyptians; How Isaiah The Prophet
Encouraged Him; How Sennacherib Having Failed Of Success In Egypt,
Returned Thence To Jerusalem; And How Upon His Finding His Army
Destroyed, He Returned Home; And What Befell Him A Little Afterward.
CHAPTER 2. How Hezekiah Was Sick, And Ready
To Die; And How God Bestowed Upon Him Fifteen Years Longer Life, [And
Secured That Promise] By The Going Back Of The Shadow Ten Degrees.
CHAPTER 3. How Manasseh Reigned After
Hezekiah; And How When He Was In Captivity He Returned To God And Was
Restored To His Kingdom And Left It To [His Son] Amon.
CHAPTER 4. How Amon Reigned Instead Of
Manasseh; And After Amon Reigned Josiah; He Was Both Righteous And
Religious. As Also Concerning Huldah The Prophetess.
CHAPTER 5. How Josiah Fought With Neco [King
Of Egypt.] And Was Wounded And Died In A Little Time Afterward; As Also
How Neco Carried Jehoahaz, Who Had Been Made King Into Egypt And
Delivered The Kingdom To Jehoiakim; And [Lastly] Concerning Jeremiah And
Ezekiel.
CHAPTER 6. How Nebuchadnezzar, When He Had
Conquered The King Of Egypt Made An Expedition Against The Jews, And
Slew Jehoiakim, And Made Jeholachin His Son King.
CHAPTER 7. That The King Of Babylon Repented
Of Making Jehoiachin King, And Took Him Away To Babylon And Delivered
The Kingdom To Zedekiah. This King Would Not Believe What Was Predicted
By Jeremiah And Ezekiel But Joined Himself To The Egyptians; Who When
They Came Into Judea, Were Vanquished By The King Of Babylon; As Also
What Befell Jeremiah.
CHAPTER 8. How The King Of Babylon Took
Jerusalem And Burnt The Temple And Removed The People Of Jerusalem And
Zedekiah To Babylon. As Also, Who They Were That Had Succeeded In The
High Priesthood Under The Kings.
CHAPTER 9. How Nebuzaradan Set Gedaliah Over
The Jews That Were Left In Judea Which Gedaliah Was A Little Afterward
Slain By Ishmael; And How Johanan After Ishmael Was Driven Away Went
Down Into Egypt With The People Which People Nebuchadnezzar When He Made
An Expedition Against The Egyptians Took Captive And Brought Them Away
To Babylon.
CHAPTER 10. Concerning Daniel And What Befell
Him At Babylon.
CHAPTER 11. Concerning Nebuchadnezzar And His
Successors And How Their Government Was Dissolved By The Persians; And
What Things Befell Daniel In Media; And What Prophecies He Delivered
There.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. How Cyrus, King Of The Persians,
Delivered The Jews Out Of Babylon And Suffered Them To Return To Their
Own Country And To Build Their Temple, For Which Work He Gave Them
Money.
CHAPTER 2. How Upon The Death Of Cyrus The
Jews Were Hindered In Building Of The Temple By The Cutheans, And The
Neighboring Governors; And How Cambyses Entirely Forbade The Jews To Do
Any Such Thing.
CHAPTER 3. How After The Death Of Cambyses
And The Slaughter Of The Magi But Under The Reign Of Darius, Zorobabel
Was Superior To The Rest In The Solution Of Problems And Thereby
Obtained This Favor Of The King, That The Temple Should Be Built.
CHAPTER 4. How The Temple Was Built While The
Cutheans Endeavored In Vain To Obstruct The Work.
CHAPTER 5. How Xerxes The Son Of Darius Was
Well Disposed To The Jews; As Also Concerning Esdras And Nehemiah.
CHAPTER 6. Concerning Esther And Mordecai And
Haman; And How In The Reign Of Artaxerxes The Whole Nation Of The Jews
Was In Danger Of Perishing.
CHAPTER 7. How John Slew His Brother Jesus In
The Temple; And How Bagoses Offered Many Injuries To The Jews; And What
Sanballat Did.
CHAPTER 8. Concerning Sanballat And Manasseh,
And The Temple Which They Built On Mount Gerizzim; As Also How Alexander
Made His Entry Into The City Jerusalem, And What Benefits He Bestowed On
The Jews.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. How Ptolemy The Son Of Lagus Took
Jerusalem And Judea By Deceit And Treachery, And Carried Many Thence,
And Planted Them In Egypt.
CHAPTER 2. How Ptolemy Philadelphus Procured
The Laws Of The Jews To Be Translated Into The Greek Tongue And Set Many
Captives Free, And Dedicated Many Gifts To God.
CHAPTER 3. How The Kings Of Asia Honored The
Nation Of The Jews And Made Them Citizens Of Those Cities Which They
Built.
CHAPTER 4. How Antiochus Made A League With
Ptolemy And How Onias Provoked Ptolemy Euergetes To Anger; And How
Joseph Brought All Things Right Again, And Entered Into Friendship With
Him; And What Other Things Were Done By Joseph, And His Son Hyrcanus.
CHAPTER 5. How, Upon The Quarrels One Against
Another About The High Priesthood Antiochus Made An Expedition Against
Jerusalem, Took The City And Pillaged The Temples. And Distressed The
Jews' As Also How Many Of The Jews Forsook The Laws Of Their Country;
And How The Samaritans Followed The Customs Of The Greeks And Named
Their Temple At Mount Gerizzim The Temple Of Jupiter Hellenius.
CHAPTER 6. How, Upon Antiochus's Prohibition
To The Jews To Make Use Of The Laws Of Their Country Mattathias, The Son
Of Asamoneus, Alone Despised The King, And Overcame The Generals Of
Antiochus's Army; As Also Concerning The Death Of Mattathias, And The
Succession Of Judas.
CHAPTER 7. How Judas Overthrew The Forces Of
Apollonius And Seron And Killed The Generals Of Their Armies Themselves;
And How When, A Little While Afterwards Lysias And Gorgias Were Beaten
He Went Up To Jerusalem And Purified The Temple.
CHAPTER 8. How Judas Subdued The Nations
Round About; And How Simon Beat The People Of Tyre And Ptolemais; And
How Judas Overcame Timotheus, And Forced Him To Fly Away, And Did Many
Other Things After Joseph And Azarias Had Been Beaten.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Death Of Antiochus
Epiphane. How Antiochus Eupator Fought Against Juda And Besieged Him In
The Temple And Afterwards Made Peace With Him And Departed; Of Alcimus
And Onias.
CHAPTER 10. How Bacchides, The General Of
Demetrius's Army, Made An Expedition Against Judea, And Returned Without
Success; And How Nicanor Was Sent A Little Afterward Against Judas And
Perished, Together With His Army; As Also Concerning The Death Of
Alcimus And The Succession Of Judas.
CHAPTER 11. That Bacchides Was Again Sent Out
Against Judas; And How Judas Fell As He Was Courageously Fighting.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. How Jonathan Took The Government
After His Brother Judas; And How He, Together With His Brother Simon,
Waged War Against Bacchides.
CHAPTER 2. How Alexander [Bala] In His War
With Demetrius, Granted Jonathan Many Advantages And Appointed Him To Be
High Priest And Persuaded Him To Assist Him Although Demetrius Promised
Him Greater Advantages On The Other Side. Concerning The Death
CHAPTER 3. The Friendship That Was Between
Onias And Ptolemy Philometor; And How Onias Built A Temple In Egypt Like
To That At Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 4. How Alexander Honored Jonathan
After An Extraordinary Manner; And How Demetrius, The Son Of Demetrius,
Overcame Alexander And Made A League Of Friendship With Jonathan.
CHAPTER 5. How Trypho After He Had Beaten
Demetrius Delivered The Kingdom To Antiochus The Son Of Alexander, And
Gained Jonathan For His Assistant; And Concerning The Actions And
Embassies Of Jonathan.
CHAPTER 6. How Jonathan Was Slain By
Treachery; And How Thereupon The Jews Made Simon Their General And High
Priest: What Courageous Actions He Also Performed Especially Against
Trypho.
CHAPTER 7. How Simon Confederated Himself
With Antiochus Pius, And Made War Against Trypho, And A Little
Afterward, Against Cendebeus, The General Of Antiochus's Army; As Also
How Simon Was Murdered By His Son-In-Law Ptolemy, And That By Treachery.
CHAPTER 8. Hyrcanus Receives The High
Priesthood, And Ejects Ptolemy Out Of The Country. Antiochus Makes War
Against Hyrcanus And Afterwards Makes A League With Him.
CHAPTER 9. How, After The Death Of Antiochus,
Hyrcanus Made An Expedition Against Syria, And Made A League With The
Romans. Concerning The Death Of King Demetrius And Alexander.
CHAPTER 10. How Upon The Quarrel Between
Antiochus Grypus And Antiochus Cyzicenus About The Kingdom Hyrcanus
Tooksamaria, And Utterly Demolished It; And How Hyrcaus Joined Himself
To The Sect Of The Sadducees, And Left That Of The Pharisees.
CHAPTER 11. How Aristobulus, When He Had
Taken The Government First Of All Put A Diadem On His Head, And Was Most
Barbarously Cruel To His Mother And His Brethren; And How, After He Had
Slain Antigonus, He Himself Died.
CHAPTER 12. How Alexander When He Had Taken
The Government Made An Expedition Against Ptolemais, And Then Raised The
Siege Out Of Fear Of Ptolemy Lathyrus; And How Ptolemy Made War Against
Him, Because He Had Sent To Cleopatra To Persuade Her To Make War
Against Ptolemy, And Yet Pretended To Be In Friendship With Him, When He
Beat The Jews In The Battle.
CHAPTER 13. How Alexander, upon the League of
Mutual Defense Which Cleopatra Had Agreed with Him, Made an Expedition
Against Coelesyria, and Utterly Overthrew the City of Gaza; and How He
Slew Many Ten Thousands of Jews That Rebelled Against Him.
CHAPTER 14. How Demetrius Eucerus Overcame
Alexander And Yet In A Little Time Retired Out Of The Country For Fear;
As Also How Alexander Slew Many Of The Jews And Thereby Got Clear Of His
Troubles. Concerning The Death Of Demetrius.
CHAPTER 15. How Antiochus, Who Was Called
Dionysus, And After Him Aretas Made Expeditions Into Judea; As Also How
Alexander Took Many Cities And Then Returned To Jerusalem, And After A
Sickness Of Three Years Died; And What Counsel He Gave To Alexandra.
CHAPTER 16. How Alexandra By Gaining The
Good-Will Of The Pharisees, Retained The Kingdom Nine Years, And Then,
Having Done Many Glorious Actions Died.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. The War Between Aristobulus And
Hyrcanus About The Kingdom; And How They Made Anagreement That
Aristobulus Should Be King, And Hyrcanus Live A Private Life; As Also
How Hyrcanus A Little Afterward Was Persuaded By Antipater To Fly To
Aretas.
CHAPTER 2. How Aretas And Hyrcanus Made An
Expedition Against Aristobulus And Besieged Jerusalem; And How Scaurus
The Roman General Raised The Siege. Concerning The Death Of Onias.
CHAPTER 3. How Aristobulus And Hyrcanus Came
To Pompey In Order To Argue Who Ought To Have The Kingdom; And How Upon
The Plight Of Aristobulus To The Fortress Alexandrium Pompey Led His
Army Against Him And Ordered Him To Deliver Up The Fortresses Whereof He
Was Possessed.
CHAPTER 4. How Pompey When The Citizens Of
Jerusalem Shut Their Gates Against Him Besieged The City And Took It By
Force; As Also What Other Things He Did In Judea.
CHAPTER 5. How Scaurus Made A League Of
Mutual Assistance With Aretas; And What Gabinius Did In Judea, After He
Had Conquered Alexander, The Son Of Aristobulus.
CHAPTER 6. How Gabinius Caught Aristobulus
After He Had Fled From Rome, And Sent Him Back To Rome Again; And Now
The Same Gabinius As He Returned Out Of Egypt Overcame Alexander And The
Nabateans In Battle.
CHAPTER 7. How Crassus Came Into Judea, And
Pillaged The Temple; And Then Marched Against The Parthians And
Perished, With His Army. Also How Cassius Obtained Syria, And Put A Stop
To The Parthians And Then Went Up To Judea.
CHAPTER 8. The Jews Become Confederates With
Cæsar When He Fought Against Egypt. The Glorious Actions Of Antipater,
And His Friendship With Cæsar. The Honors Which The Jews Received From
The Romans And Athenians.
CHAPTER 9. How Antipater Committed The Care
Of Galilee To Herod, And That Of Jerusalem To Phasaelus; As Also How
Herod Upon The Jews' Envy At Antipater Was Accused Before Hyrcanus.
CHAPTER 10. The Honors That Were Paid The
Jews; And The Leagues That Were Made By The Romans And Other Nations,
With Them.
CHAPTER 11. How Marcus, Succeeded Sextus When
He Had Been Slain By Bassus's Treachery; And How, After The Death Of
Cæsar, Cassius Came Into Syria, And Distressed Judea; As Also How
Malichus Slew Antipater And Was Himself Slain By Herod.
CHAPTER 12. Herod Ejects Antigonus, The Son
Of Aristobulus Out Of Judea, And Gains The Friendship Of Antony, Who Was
Now Come Into Syria, By Sending Him Much Money; On Which Account He
Would Not Admit Of Those That Would Have Accused Herod: And What It Was
That Antony Wrote To The Tyrians In Behalf.
CHAPTER 13. How Antony Made Herod And
Phasaelus Tetrarchs, After They Had Been Accused To No Purpose; And How
The Parthians When They Brought Antigonus Into Judea Took Hyrcanus And
Phasaelus Captives. Herod's Flight; And What Afflictions Hyrcanus And
Phasaelus Endured.
CHAPTER 14. How Herod Got Away From The King
Of Arabia And Made Haste To Go Into Egypt And Thence Went Away In Haste
Also To Rome; And How, By Promising A Great Deal Of Money To Antony He
Obtained Of The Senate And Of Cæsar To Be Made King Of The Jews.
CHAPTER 15. How Herod Sailed Out Of Italy To
Judea, And Fought With Antigonus And What Other Things Happened In Judea
About That Time.
CHAPTER 16. How Herod, When He Had Married
Mariamne Took Jerusalem With The Assistance Of Sosius By Force; And How
The Government Of The Asamoneans Was Put An End To.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. Concerning Pollio And Sameas.
Herod Slays The Principal Of Antigonus's Friends, And Spoils The City Of
Its Wealth. Antony Beheads Antigonus.
CHAPTER 2. How Hyrcanus Was Set At Liberty By
The Parthians, And Returned To Herod; And What Alexandra Did When She
Heard That Ananelus Was Made High Priest.
CHAPTER 3. How Herod Upon His Making
Aristobulus High Priest Took Care That He Should Be Murdered In A Little
Time; And What Apology He Made To Antony About Aristobulus; As Also
Concerning Joseph And Mariamne.
CHAPTER 4. How Cleopatra, When She Had Gotten
From Antony Some Parts Of Judea And Arabia Came Into Judea; And How
Herod Gave Her Many Presents And Conducted Her On Her Way Back To Egypt.
CHAPTER 5. How Herod Made War With The King
Of Arabia, And After They Had Fought Many Battles, At Length Conquered
Him, And Was Chosen By The Arabs To Be Governor Of That Nation; As Also
Concerning A Great Earthquake.
CHAPTER 6. How Herod Slew Hyrcanus And Then
Hasted Away To Cæsar, And Obtained The Kingdom From Him Also; And How A
Little Time Afterward, He Entertained Cæsar In A Most Honorable Manner.
CHAPTER 7. How Herod Slew Sohemus And
Mariamne And Afterward Alexandra And Costobarus, And His Most Intimate
Friends, And At Last The Sons Of Babbas Also.
CHAPTER 8. How Ten Men Of The Citizens [Of
Jerusalem] Made A Conspiracy Against Herod, For The Foreign Practices He
Had Introduced, Which Was A Transgression Of The Laws Of Their Country.
Concerning The Building Of Sebaste And Cæsarea, And Other Edifices Of
Herod.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Famine That
Happened In Judea And Syria; And How Herod, After He Had Married Another
Wife, Rebuilt Cæsarea, And Other Grecian Cities.
CHAPTER 10. How Herod Sent His Sons To Rome;
How Also He Was Accused By Zenodorus And The Gadarens, But Was Cleared
Of What They Accused Him Of And Withal Gained To Himself The Good-Will
Of Cæsar. Concerning The Pharisees, The Essens And Manahem.
CHAPTER 11. How Herod Rebuilt The Temple And
Raised It Higher And Made It More Magnificent Than It Was Before; As
Also Concerning That Tower Which He Called Antonia.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. A Law Of Herod's About, Thieves.
Salome And Pheroras Calumniate Alexander And Aristobulus, Upon Their
Return From Rome For Whom Yet Herod Provides Wives.
CHAPTER 2. How Herod Twice Sailed To Agrippa;
And How Upon The Complaint In Ionia Against The Greeks Agrippa Confirmed
The Laws To Them.
CHAPTER 3. How Great Disturbances Arose In
Herods Family On His Preferring Antipater His Eldest Son Before The
Rest, Till Alexander Took That Injury Very Heinously.
CHAPTER 4. How During Antipater's Abode At
Rome, Herod Brought Alexander And Aristobulus Before Cæsar And Accused
Them. Alexander's Defense Of Himself Before Cæsar And Reconciliation To
His Father.
CHAPTER 5. How Herod Celebrated The Games
That Were To Return Every Fifth Year Upon The Building Of Cæsarea; And
How He Built And Adorned Many Other Places After A Magnificent Manner;
And Did Many Other Actions Gloriously
CHAPTER 6. An Embassage In Cyrene And Asia To
Cæsar, Concerning The Complaints They Had To Make Against The Greeks;
With Copies Of The Epistles Which Cæsar And Agrippa Wrote To The Cities
For Them.
CHAPTER 7. How, Upon Herod's Going Down Into
David's Sepulcher, The Sedition In His Family Greatly Increased.
CHAPTER 8. How Herod Took Up Alexander And
Bound Him; Whom Yet Archelaus King Of Cappadocia Reconciled To His
Father Herod Again.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Revolt Of The
Trachonites; How Sylleus Accused Herod Before Cæsar; And How Herod,
When Cæsar Was Angry At Him, Resolved To Send Nicolaus To Rome.
CHAPTER 10. How Eurycles Falsely Accused
Herod's Sons; And How Their Father Bound Them, And Wrote To Cæsar About
Them. Of Sylleus And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus.
CHAPTER 11. How Herod, By Permission From
Cæsar Accused His Sons Before An Assembly Of Judges At Berytus; And
What Tero Suffered For Using A Boundless And Military Liberty Of Speech.
Concerning Also The Death Of The Young Men And Their Burial At
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. How Antipater Was Hated By All The
Nation [Of The Jews] For The Slaughter Of His Brethren; And How, For
That Reason He Got Into Peculiar Favor With His Friends At Rome, By
Giving Them Many Presents; As He Did Also With Saturninus, The President
Of Syria And The Governors Who Were Under Him; And Concerning Herod's
Wives And Children.
CHAPTER 2. Concerning Zamaris, The Babylonian
Jew; Concerning The Plots Laid By Antipater Against His Father; And
Somewhat About The Pharisees.
CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Enmity Between
Herod And Pheroras; How Herod Sent Antipater To Cæsar; And Of The Death
Of Pheroras.
CHAPTER 4. Pheroras's Wife Is Accused By His
Freedmen, As Guilty Of Poisoning Him; And How Herod, Upon Examining; Of
The Matter By Torture Found The Poison; But So That It Had Been Prepared
For Himself By His Son Antipater; And Upon An Inquiry By Torture He
Discovered The Dangerous Designs Of Antipater.
CHAPTER 5. Antipater's Navigation From Rome
To His Father; And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus Of Damascus And
Condemned To Die By His Father, And By Quintilius Varus, Who Was Then
President Of Syria; And How He Was Then Bound Till Cæsar Should Be
Informed Of His Cause.
CHAPTER 6. Concerning The Disease That Herod
Fell Into And The Sedition Which The Jews Raised Thereupon; With The
Punishment Of The Seditious.
CHAPTER 7. Herod Has Thoughts Of Killing
Himself With His Own Hand; And A Little Afterwards He Orders Antipater
To Be Slain.
CHAPTER 8. Concerning Herod's Death, And
Testament, And Burial.
CHAPTER 9. How The People Raised A Sedition
Against Archelaus, And How He Sailed To Rome.
CHAPTER 10. A Sedition Against Sabinus; And
How Varus Brought The Authors Of It To Punishment.
CHAPTER 11. An Embassage To Cæsar; And How
Cæsar Confirmed Herod's Testament.
CHAPTER 12. Concerning A Spurious Alexander.
CHAPTER 13. How Archelaus Upon A Second
Accusation, Was Banished To Vienna.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER 1. How Cyrenius Was Sent By Cæsar To
Make A Taxation Of Syria And Judea; And How Coponius Was Sent To Be
Procurator Of Judea; Concerning Judas Of Galilee And Concerning The
Sects That Were Among The Jews.
CHAPTER 2. Now Herod And Philip Built Several
Cities In Honor Of Cæsar. Concerning The Succession Of Priests And
Procurators; As Also What Befell Phraates And The Parthians.
CHAPTER 3. Sedition Of The Jews Against
Pontius Pilate. Concerning Christ, And What Befell Paulina And The Jews
At Rome.
CHAPTER 4. How The Samaritans Made A Tumult
And Pilate Destroyed Many Of Them; How Pilate Was Accused And What
Things Were Done By Vitellius Relating To The Jews And The Parthians.
CHAPTER 5. Herod The Tetrarch Makes War With
Aretas, The King Of Arabia, And Is Beaten By Him As Also Concerning The
Death Of John The Baptist. How Vitellius Went Up To Jerusalem; Together
With Some Account Of Agrippa And Of The Posterity Of Herod The Great.
CHAPTER 6. Of The Navigation Of King Agrippa
To Rome, To Tiberius Cæsar; And Now Upon His Being Accused By His Own
Freed-Man, He Was Bound; How Also He, Was Set At Liberty By Caius, After
Tiberius's Death And Was Made King Of The Tetrarchy Of Philip.
CHAPTER 7. How Herod The Tetrarch Was
Banished.
CHAPTER 8. Concerning The Embassage Of The
Jews To Caius; [28] And How Caius Sent Petronius Into Syria To Make War
Against The Jews, Unless They Would Receive His Statue.
CHAPTER 9. What Befell The Jews That Were In
Babylon On Occasion Of Asineus And Anileus, Two Brethren.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. How Caius [1] Was Slain By Cherea.
CHAPTER 2. How The Senators Determined To
Restore The Democracy; But The Soldiers Were For Preserving The
Monarchy, Concerning The Slaughter Of Caius's Wife And Daughter. A
Character Of Caius's Morals.
CHAPTER 3. How Claudius Was Seized Upon And
Brought Out Of His House And Brought To The Camp; And How The Senate
Sent An Embassage To Him.
CHAPTER 4. What Things King Agrippa Did For
Claudius; And How Claudius When He Had Taken The Government Commanded
The Murderers Of Caius To Be Slain.
CHAPTER 5. How Claudius Restored To Agrippa
His Grandfathers Kingdoms And Augmented His Dominions; And How He
Published An Edict In Behalf.
CHAPTER 6. What Things Were Done By Agrippa
At Jerusalem When He Was Returned Back Into Judea; And What It Was That
Petronius Wrote To The Inhabitants Of Doris, In Behalf.
CHAPTER 7. Concerning Silas And On What
Account It Was That King Agrippa Was Angry At Him. How Agrippa Began To
Encompass Jerusalem With A Wall; And What Benefits He Bestowed On The
Inhabitants Of Berytus.
CHAPTER 8. What Other Acts Were Done By
Agrippa Until His Death; And After What Manner He Died.
CHAPTER 9. What Things Were Done After The
Death Of Agrippa; And How Claudius, On Account Of The Youth And
Unskilfulness Of Agrippa, Junior, Sent Cuspius Fadus To Be Procurator Of
Judea, And Of The Entire Kingdom.
FOOTNOTES
CHAPTER 1. A Sedition Of The Philadelphians
Against The Jews; And Also Concerning The Vestments Of The High Priest.
CHAPTER 2. How Helena The Queen Of Adiabene
And Her Son Izates, Embraced The Jewish Religion; And How Helena
Supplied The Poor With Corn, When There Was A Great Famine At Jerusalem.
CHAPTER 3. How Artabanus, the King of Parthia
out of Fear of the Secret Contrivances of His Subjects Against Him, Went
to Izates, and Was By Him Reinstated in His Government; as Also How
Bardanes His Son Denounced War Against Izates.
CHAPTER 4. How Izates Was Betrayed By His Own
Subjects, And Fought Against By The Arabians And How Izates, By The
Providence Of God, Was Delivered Out Of Their Hands.
CHAPTER 5. Concerning Theudas And The Sons Of
Judas The Galilean; As Also What Calamity Fell Upon The Jews On The Day
Of The Passover.
CHAPTER 6. How There Happened A Quarrel
Between The Jews And The Samaritans; And How Claudius Put An End To
Their Differences.
CHAPTER 7. Felix Is Made Procurator Of Judea;
As Also Concerning Agrippa, Junior And His Sisters.
CHAPTER 8. After What Manner Upon The Death
Of Claudius, Nero Succeeded In The Government; As Also What Barbarous
Things He Did. Concerning The Robbers, Murderers And Impostors, That
Arose While Felix And Festus Were Procurators Of Judea.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning Albinus Under Whose
Procuratorship James Was Slain; As Also What Edifices Were Built By
Agrippa.
CHAPTER 10. An Enumeration Of The High
Priests.
CHAPTER 11. Concerning Florus The Procurator,
Who Necessitated The Jews To Take Up Arms Against The Romans. The
Conclusion.
FOOTNOTES
