THE GENUINE WORKS OF CALIFORNIA FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, THE LEARNED AND AUTHENTIC JEWISH HISTORIAN, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, ACCORDING TO WITH COPIOUS NOTES, & PROPER OBSERVATIONS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOLUME II. CONTAINING THE LAST NINE BOOKS OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, WITH THE LIFE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM WHISTON, A. M. LATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. PRINTED AT SPRINGFIELD, FOR ISAIAH THOMAS, JUN. SOLD ALSO BY THOMAS AND ANDREWS, BOSTON, JOHNSON AND 1809. Containing the Interval of an hundred and feventy years. [FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, to THE DEATH OF JUDAS MACCABEUS.] CHAPTER 1. How Ptolemy, the fon of Lagus, took Jerufalem and Judea by deceit and treachery, and carried many of the Jews thence, and planted them in Egypt. §1. NOW the affairs in Judea after the forementioned manner, he ended his life. And as his government fell among many, Antigonus obtained Afia, Seleucus Babylon; and of the other nations which were there, Lyfimachus governed the Hellefpont, and Caffander poffeffed Macedonia; as did Ptolemy the fon of Lagus feize upon Egypt. And while thefe princes ambitiously ftrove one against another, every one for his own principality, it came to pals that there were continual wars, and thofe lafting wars too; and the cities were fufferers, and loft a great many of their inhabitants in these times of diftrefs, in fo much that all Syria, by the means of Ptolemy the fon of Lagus, underwent the reverfe of that denomination of Saviour, which he then had. He alfo feized upon Jerufalem, and for that end made ufe of deceit and treachery; for as he came into the city on a Sabbath day, as if he would offer facM100498 of the Perfians, and had fettled OW when Alexander, king of Macedon, had put an |