 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 440 pages
...first, occasioned so great a straitness among them that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine as destroyed them more suddenly. That this city could contain so many people in it is manifest by that number of them which was taken... | |
 | Huseyin Abiva, Noura Durkee - 2003 - 388 pages
...very first, occasioned so great a traitness among them that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed them more suddenly. From The Works ofjosephus, translated by William Whiston Hendrickson Publishers, 1987 me Character... | |
 | Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, David Samuel Margoliouth - 2004 - 500 pages
...first, occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed...flower of the city, who otherwise was disposed to contenm that nation, entreated the high priests, if the thing were possible, to take the number of... | |
 | Irene Belyeu - 2006 - 669 pages
...first, occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine as destroyed...many people in it is manifest by that number of them US 318 Wars, 5.3.1. Also Whiston's footnote, p. 551. which was taken under Cestius, who being desirous... | |
 | M. a. Reverend a. R. Shilleto, Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 277 pages
...the war, which density of population first produced a pestilence, and very soon afterwards a famine. And that this city could contain so many people in it, is manifest by the numeration taken under Oestrus, who being desirous to inform Nero, who despised our nation, of... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1822 - 474 pages
...very first occasioned so great a straitness among them that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine as destroyed...was disposed to contemn that nation, entreated the high-priests, if the thing were possible, to take the number of their whole multitude. So these high-priests,... | |
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Jerusalem], but not belonging to the city itself; for they were come up from all the country to the feast of unleavened bread, and were on a sudden shut up by an army, which at the very first occasioned so great a straitness among them that there came... 
