| William Matthew Flinders Petrie - 1924 - 424 pages
...their way through the desert towards Syria. But as they stood in fear of the Assyrians, who then had dominion over Asia, they built a city in that country which is now called Judasa, of sufficient size to contain this multitude of men, and named it Jerusalem." Here, then, it... | |
| James William Jack - 1925 - 316 pages
...fewer in number than 240,000, and took their journey from Egypt, through the wilderness for Syria ; but as they were in fear of the Assyrians, who had then...they built a city in that country which is now called Judaea, and that large enough to contain this great number of men, and called it Jerusalem. Neither... | |
| Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 214 pages
...away with their whole families and effects, not fewer in number than two hundred and forty thousand, and took their journey from Egypt, through the wilderness,...to contain this great number of men, and called it Jerusalem.9 Now Manetho, in another book of his, says, "That this nation, thus called Shepherds, were... | |
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