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A46295	The wonderful, and most deplorable history of the latter times of the Jews with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures do end. By Josephus Ben Gorion whereunto is added a brief of the ten captivities; with the pourtrait of the Roman rams, and engines of battery, &c. As also of Jerusalem; with the fearful, and presaging apparitions that were seen in the air before her ruins. Moreover, there is a parallel of the late times and crimes in London, with those in Jerusalem.; Josippon. English. Abridgments.	Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, attributed name.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1671 (1671)	Wing J1086A; ESTC R216340	213,458	417

after this came many souldiers and great bands of men out of all Nations that were subject to the Empire of the Romans to aid Titus to whom Titus declared what had hapned him in that siege the stoutness of the Jews and how they had annoyed many waies the Roman army adding moreover and asking them Did you ever see four men withstand ten thousand and five hundred so that they being all together could neither overthrow them nor take them prisoners but the four slew them like as it had been tops of Coucumbers smitten off with most sharp swords When they heard this they wondred all very much Then Titus spake unto his host and to them which were newly repaired unto him to shew their advice and best counsel what was to be done lest we should be ashamed saith he before all them that shall hereafter hear of our Wars The gravest and most ancient of the Nations that were newly come to his aid answered If it please your Majesty let the Romans breath a while and take their rest which are now wearied with the sundry battels of the Jews and we who are not so broken with labour but fresh and lusty shall try what the Jews can do we cannot think that they are able to withstand so great a multitude But the Princes of the Romans desired Titus that he should not permit them this lest he should increase their own sorrows if peradventure they should be discomfited say they of the Jews and the matter redound unto their own shame For if we which are acquainted with them and know their manner of fight cannot sustain their violence How shall they do it that never had proof of the strength and force of the Jews They shall be to them like Hyssop which groweth upon the walls in comparison of the Cedar-trees of Libanus The other said nay they should do well enough with them And they urged Titus so instantly that they constrained him to grant them their desire Then Titus gave them leave to set upon the Jews thinking with himself peradventure the Jews may be put to the worse of these men that will fight without fear not knowing the force of the Jews for the Romans that have had trial of their strength fight fearfully and warily So the Lords of the strange Nations chose out of their Armies eighty thousand men Ten thousand Macedonians twenty thousand Britains five thousand Aramites ten thousand Africans ten thousand valiant Burgundians five thousand Redarans last of all ten thousand Persians and Chaldeans These therefore went into the Plain which is by the Sepulcher of Jehochanan the high Priest and from thence made an assault upon the Jews that were upon the Walls setting up their scaling ladders Jehochanan said to Schimeon and Eleazar his two Companions If you think good I will issue forth and skirmish with these uncircumcised to let them see what I can do Schimeon answered Let two of us do it and the third keep the gates and walls for thou alone art able to do nothing against them they are so many Eleazar allowed this advice offering himself to bear Jehochanan company Schimeon bad them go saying The Lord of the Sanctuary give them into your hands and deal not with you at this time according to your works Then Jehochanan and Eleazar issued with one thousand five hundred good men of War the ninth day of the moneth Tebeth which was the tenth moneth that Titus had besieged Jerusalem and overthrew of the Gentiles of that host fifty seven thousand and five hundred men besides three thousand whom they took prisoners but of the Jews were no more slain in that fight than only seven whose bodies with much rejoycing and great triumph they carried with them into the Town and buried them there lest peradventure the uncircumcised should have misordered them The Gentiles that were left with great shame and dishonour returned unto Titus who reprehended them because they would not believe the Romans The next day following the Jews brought forth the three thousand Nobles and Gentlemen that they had taken prisoners and plucked out of every one of them an eye and cut off every man the one hand after sent them back with shame and reproach to Titus's Camp Then Titus consulted with all his Princes what were best to do with the Israelites and when every man had said his mind he liked never a mans counsel but said unto them Well I have devised this with my self which I will follow and no man shall bring me from my purpose we will keep the siege without any assault or skirmish for their victuals failed them long ago and so they shall be famished Besides this when they shall see us cease to fight with them they will fall at variance amongst themselves and kill one another This counsel was thought good of all Titus's Princes wherefore they besieged the Town as Titus commanded and closed up all the wayes of the City round about lest the Jews should as they had done before come upon them unawares They appointed moreover watch day and night to take heed that no man should come out of the Town to gather herbs for their sustenance Then encreased the hunger in Jerusalem which if it had not been so grievous the City had never been won for the souldiers of the Town were lighter than Eagles and fiercer than Lions There died therefore of the famine wonderful many of the Jerusolemites so that the Jews could not find place to bury them in they were so many in every place of the Town Many cast their dead folks into their Wells and tumbled afterwards in themselves and died Many also made themselves graves and went into them alive where they tarried day and night and died unmourned-for For all mourning and accustomed lamentation for the dead was left off because of the unmeasurable famine which was so great that it cannot be told and I cannot relate the thousandth part of the mischief that followed of the hunger Titus seeing the innumerable carkases of the dead that were cast into the Brook Cedron like dung was wonderfully amazed with fear and stretched out his hands toward heaven saying Lord God of Heaven and Earth whom the Israelites believe in cleanse me from this sin which surely I am not the cause of for I required peace of them but they refused it and they themselves are cause of this mischief they have sinned against their own souls and lives I beseech thee impute it not to me for a sin that the Jews die on this manner At that time certain wicked persons of Jerusalem slandered Amittai the Priest falsely saying to Captain Schimeon Behold Amittai the high Priest which did let thee into the City goeth about to flee to the Tents of the Romans Thou hast experience of his great wit and wisdom how he also knoweth all the secret wayes into the Town Temple and Sanctuary and who can tell whether he will bring the Romans some night at midnight

floods of the seas persecuted them that persecuted thee Hath not the earth swallowed up them that despised thee and the winds scattered them a sunder that made insurrections against thee hath not thunder from heaven destroyed thine enemies and stars fought against thy foes What means this therefore and how cometh it to pass that thou hidest thy face from us to whom hast thou delivered the sheep of thy pasture Look upon us our God and behold thy people and inheritance that thou broughtest out of Egypt with a mighty power and a strong hand with wonders and signs leading them untill this day in thy faith take pitty upon them in thy mercy and extend not thy wrath against thy servants Where art thou Moses the son of Amram stand up and see thy people and flock of sheep which thou feedest all thy life with thy wisdom see how Wolves and Lions tear them see how the Israelites are become foes to their own lives and souls yea wasters and destroyers are sprung up of their own selves Behold the people of GOD for whose sake thou lifted'st up thy staff over the sea wherewith thou struckest and dividest it that it was made dry ground so the Israelites passed through and escaped their enemies Remember thy prayer when as in time of famine and lack of food thou obtaindft for them meat from heaven and at the same time when they were weary of their lives for thirst thou broughtest water out of the most hard rock Come forth Aaron most holy Priest of God that didst put thy self between the living and the dead to turn away the plague from Israel and staydest the destroyer that he should not come ●…igh the living Arise out of thy grave thou Phineas that moved with such fervency didst revenge the glory and majesty of the Lord God of Israel come and run through the Seditious in thy fury which murther the people of God and his Priests Awake thou Ioshua that didst throw down the walls of Jericho with the sound and shout of thy Trumpets that the holy Priests held in their hands Come now and see thy people that thou madest to inherit many Nations and to conquer most puissant Kings how they kill one another how they further and help forward the Idolater to rule and have the Dominion of the holy Land that thou gavest thy people Israel to inherit Why sleepest thou King David Awake and come with the sound of thy Psaltery and Harp sing to thy holy Psalms too Ask account of thy sweet words that are ceased from the mouthes of this people and out of all mens mouthes because of the maliciousness thereof See how their Princes be transformed into enemies and destroyers and do as thou diddest good King David that didst give thine own life for theirs saying Let thy hand O Lord be turned against me and against the house of my father and do not fall upon thy people to destroy them Where art thou Elizeus Come and see what thou canst do if thou canst rescue the remnant of Israel and find them any gap to escape at Didst not thou by thy prayer bring the power of the Syrians to a Town of defence and prevailedst against them without dint of sword or battel and broughtest them down smiting them with blindness that they turned their enmity towards Israel into love Indeed thou wast he●…that vanquishedst the Syrians by thy prayer that they fled for fear of the same Now therefore ye heard-men of Israel assemble together and listen with 〈◊〉 and hear my words that I will speak in your ears this day Tell me What is become of your prayers that ye have made for the people of Israel to defed and turn away from them a I wrath indignation tribulation fury and inmissions of evill spirits How is it that now ye see not the Sanctuary turned into a vile sink of blood for the dead bodies of Priests lye in midst of it The holy City Jerusalem is become a strange City as though the name of the Lord had never been in it and the Sanctuary of the Lord is in that case at this present as though the Godhead had never dwelt therein for the Temple is turned into a den of theeves a lodging of Seditious persons a tabernacle of cruel murtherers And who so flieth thither for refuge there they be slain as the Seditious have murthered in the midst thereof Anani the high Priest and Joshua a Priest also that were Princes and chief Priests the most reverend amongst the people of God whom ere this Kings and Nations had sued to and desired their favour but never cast their slain bodies in the midst of the Temple The Nobility also of Jerusalem the Elders of Juda the Sages of Israel whose friendship Kings and Nations have sought after and desired to make peace with they lye now slain here and there in the midst of Jerusalem are meat for the fouls of the ayre and beasts of the field to dogs and ravens because there is no man to bury them These died not for their offences but because they found fault with the Israelites when they sinned How are they slain in thee O Jerusalem thou holy City renowned throughout the whole earth all just men all holy men whom the Seditious have overcome those helhounds and blood-suckers that have brought all these evils upon thee how are the Priests of the Lord and his Prophets slain amongst those holy men For before the holy Temple was the Prophet Sechariahu that just and holy man butchered and murthered yea without all buriall neither was his blood covered with earth but yet still wandreth about and cryeth in thee The blood of Anani also and Joshua the chief Priests was yet never covered which were both slain in thy Temple as men be wont to kill theeves yea the blood of the godly young men and valiant that would have revenged them was shed also by the Seditious like floods of water How are the hearts of the people turned so aukwardly that they will bear no admonition of just men but are like unto blockish Images that neither see nor hear nor yet understand any thing All beasts be they never so brutish all plants and things that grow upon the earth withstand them that invade them to do them injury and endeavour to avoid the force of their enemy but thy children that thou keepest within thee are changed into enemies and one brother murthereth ●…nother with the sword Where is now thy valiantness thou that never wouldst bow to bear the yoak of the Gentiles upon thy shoulders but hast cast away the bondage of the Egyptians Philistines Aramites Assyrians Chaldees Persians and Medes Where is the strength that God gave to the Chasmonanites that with a very small company defended thee and prevailed against the great and puissant Army of the Greeks destroyed the stout souldiers of Babylon vanquished the mighty Army of the Persians slue Kamitiatus and Antiochus and pursued their Armies making great

overcome you and to have gotten the dominion over you But neither ye nor your Country did ever delight us greatly for our manners differ far from yours Behold the King of Madai when he had kept us for a moneth we harmed him not we are not wont to hur●… men as ye are that cannot be content with your own state but must desire other mens inheri●…ance Now therefore go and return to your own Country and so will we to ours without doing you any more hurt wherefore ye need not be afraid of us So the Alanites went home to their own Countries having slain of Mithridates people three hundred thousand men and never a one of their own was killed Titus hearing of this was desirous to go unto them to let them understand his valiantnesse but he could not compasse it b●…cause all his best men were spent in the Wa●… at Jerusalem Wherefore he determined to retu●…n to Rome after he had taken Jerusalem where he abode as yet besides the Antochia There he had intelligence that divers of the Jews were gathered together with whom was Eleazar the son of Anani the Priest who during the siege fled unto a certain Hold called Mezira whereupon many of the Jews resorted to him Titus hearing this that many had joyned themselves to Eleazar feared lest after his departure Eleazar●… might from thence make an inrode and take Jerusalem and destroy the Romans which should be no smal damage to the Roman Empire Wherefore he made out against him and sent thither one Silcham a Noble man of Rome with a great host to besiege Mezira but he could not get it Wherefore he sent unto Titus for an Iron Ram to batter the Walls withal which after he had received it he beat down the walls of Mezira therewith The Jews seeing that raised a great Countermure within of Wood and Timber which the Romans set on fire and burnt After that they assaulted the Town from morning till night at what time the Romans le●… off supposing they were not able to prevail against Eleazars defence in the dark Eleazar in the mean season called an assembly of all the chief men of the Jews that were with him and said unto them in this wise Come hither ye seed of Abraham and Kingly Priesthood which have until this day ever prevailed against the enemies of God Let us hear your advice what is best to be done against this multitude that is come upon us at unawares Ye see that at this time chiefly it becometh us to follow the courage and valiantnesse of our forefathers wherewith they were in time past endued Consider moreover that every thing hath his end and there are some times in War when as men are wont to follow the pursuit sometimes to flee from the same whom they pursued and to humble themselve before them And it is no shame to be humbled and disgraced when as all things have their determin●…te end Albeit whoso is of an haughty courage he must so establish his heart that he quail not with fear then shall he be deemed a valiant man If ye therefore be of that courage that ye fear not death then will I call ●…ou valiant men and worthy Consider the fortitude of Abraham our father and the fact that he did for having but one only son whom Sarah bare unto him in her age he never staggered nor stayed at it to offer him up to the Lord God for a burnt-offering for he thought not that he should kill him but perswaded himself most certainly that he should promote him to the life and light of the Lord forasmuch as for ●…he love of God and at his commandment he should have killed him Weigh the thing that Josiah the just King did who setting at nought this wretched life and aspiring to everlasting felicity would not avoid the jeopardy of his life when as he might have done it For although Pharaoh Necho said He came not against him but against the King of the Chaldees yet would not Josiah hear him but rather proceeding against Pharaoh in arms was slain in the battel and went unto that great Light in the Garden of Paradise which is the lot and inheritance of the just We know that in this world no man receives the reward of his righteousnesse but it is laid up for him in the other world where he shall reap the fruit of his righteousnesse that he hath sown in this world Neither doth long life in this world profit a man to the attaining of everlasting blisse except he work righteousnesse and lead his soul forth of darknesse into light like as contrariwise shortnesse of life hindreth no man from everlasting happinesse if so be it his soul have no defect in those things that pertain to the world to come For Abel which was slain of his brother lived no long life yet when he had ended it he obtained everlasting rest but Cain that lived long in the world was a wanderer and a runagate in this earth and after this life went to perpetual misery Now therefore my Brethren if we also shall live any longer our life shall be a miserable life and our dayes dayes of vanity and travel yea our soul as long as it shall remain in this body it shall be tossed with great tribulation but if it once go forth then shall it rejoyce and never be afraid And all the dayes that it is in the body it never leaveth weeping and mourning for it is the Spirit of life which is hedged within the body by ●…inewes bones none otherwise then if it were bound with chains The spirit is also that which quickneth the flesh that is taken of the dust of the earth for flesh cannot quicken the spirit Besides this the spirit is that which observeth and marketh the flesh and searcheth the works thereof so long as it is in the body yea the flesh cannot see the spirit but the spir●…t seeth the flesh alwayes neither is there any member of the body hid from it The eyes also of the body cannot perceive what time the spirit resorteth to the flesh and departeth from the same for the spirit of man which is his soul is from heaven but the flesh is taken from the earth Wherefore the soul may ●…main without the body but not likewise 〈◊〉 body without the soul and when the spiri●… comes to the flesh it visiteth it as a neighbour is wont to go and see his neighbour and quickeneth it and when again it departeth from it the flesh dyeth and if the soul will follow the desires of the flesh then this is the death of the soul but if it give no ear unto the flesh then shall the soul come to the light of life and the flesh shall die Wherefore the soul is glad when it departeth out of the body like as one that hath been bound is well contented when he 〈◊〉 dismissed out of prison For all the while that the soul is kept closed

appointing of his men some to be spies and some to keep watch and ward about the Temple of the Lord. But Jehochanan who because of the great resort of the people unto him was stronger than Eleazar he took the market place and streets and the lower part of the City Then Schimeon the Jerusolemite took the highest part of the Town wherefore his men annoyed Jehochanans part sore with Slings and Cross-bows Between these three there was also most cru el battel 's in Jerusalem for the space of four daies without ceasing or any breathing and every day were very many slain so that the blood of the Jews that were then slain ran in every place most abundantly through the Market-places and streets yea even to the Temple of the Lord like unto a flood that had come of great showres and unto the thresholds of the gates of the Temple the dead bodies overwhelmed one another by heaps for no man buried them Jehochanan having the middle part of the Town had Schimeon on the one side of him and Eleazar on the other But Schimeon had the best place from whence he might annoy both Jehochanan and Eleazar Eleazar did also what he could to endamage Schimeon And Jehochanan that was in the middest encombered them both notwithstanding to little purpose For Schimeons company flung stones and shot at them sore but when as Jehochanans part flung likewise at them the stones rebounded back upon themselves Thus amongst these three the battel was sore and encreased every day that all men were in great terrour and fear thereof Then assembled to the Temple much people of the Priests and Elders beseeching these Intestine and Domesticall enemies not to pollute and defile the Temple with their slaughters and were almost all slain for their labour The same day was slain the Priest Anani Joshua a Priest both of the chiefest Priests Sechariahu also the most faithfull Prophet of the Lord. Then had the continuall Sacrifice ceased 36. daies for ever until that time was there some good men or other of Jerusalem that offered alway sacrifice to the Lord. But now when they would have continued it and the Priests laid the sacrifice upon the Altar the Seditious would run upon them and kill them so that the Priests bodies and their cattel that they would have sacrificed should fall dead to the ground together They that resorted also out of the Country of Ierusalem for devotions sake the Seditious slew and utterly destroyed them that almost no one of them was left alive Moreover the dead bodies of men lay cast in the Temple and that without number troad under feet yea the dead body of the Priest that was offering sacrifice lay upon the earth together with his offering And when any man would offer any sacrifice straight way one or other of the Seditious would step to him and kill him that the blood of the sac●…ifice and sacrificer should be mingled together In somuch that the pavement of the Temple being all of marble was made so slippery with the blood and fat of them that were slain that no man could go upon it without falling And the Priest should no sooner lay hands on the sacrifice but he was slain and straight another dead body should fall upon him stranger or other they spared none So thus the dead bodies of the good and bad clean and unclean wicked and vertuous theef and true man lay one upon another and their blood mixt together in the midst of the Temple without respect of any man of what degree or condition soever he were Wherefore the fight and slaughter waxt great both in the Town and in the Temple Nay whomsoever the Seditious overcame they set fire on their houses also whereby the fire took into the great men's houses that were nigh the Temple and into the store-houses whereas against times of necessity and besieging of the Town were laid up in store corn wine and oyl to the number of a thousand and four hundred store-houses all filled full of victuals For the Elders and other godly men what time as Vespasian was in Galilee they made up the doors of those Garner-houses and laid in victuals into them sufficient for two hundred thousand men twenty years and now in this one battel of the Seditious they were burnt every one stick and stone which was a speedy cause of famine and hurger in Ierusalem At the same time also the Seditious pulled down and razed all the fair houses and goodly buildings that there should be no monument of any noble house left to any in the City of Ierusalem So thus you see at that time the Lord visited the Citizens of Ierusalem with four kind of plagues sword pestilence hunger and fire besides this a fift was added the ruine and decay of all beautifull and glorious buildings And wheresoever a man turned him there was nothing but desolation pollution namely of the Temple and all holy things uproars without all rest and refuge no help no succour but every corner of Ierusalem was full of howling and yelling wailing and weeping sobbing and sighing of women and children Here should ye hear the roaring groaning of wounded men not yet thorough-dead there the mourning and lamentation of the Elders younger children crying out for hunger to be short most sorrowfull oppression of them that lived done by the Seditious Such lamentations were made every where that happy and fortunate was he that before this day died and unhappy and in a wofull case were all such as remained alive to see this day All these things when I Joseph heard tydings of I tore my hair with my hands and cast ashes on my beard sitting in great sorrow on the ground bewailing the misery and calamity of Jerusalem And this lamentation made Joseph upon Jerusalem How is the City quoth he laid wast that was wont to be more happy and more renowned than all the Provinces upon the earth How is the City that was heretofore in such highness and dignity now brought under the foot through the sons of the Citizens thereof Whereas sometime was the dwelling place of the faithfull now bear rule there such men as provoke and stir Gods wrath against it and turn it away from their God wasting it as theeves In the which sometime remained the brightness of the Godhead it is now become a by-word and mocking-stock to the enemies replenished with blood of wounded and slain men Instead of mirth gladness rejoycing harps and psalteries is sorrow sighing heart-breaks mourning and pensiveness come in place Even as heretofore the priests executed the service of the Lord in offering sacrifices so likewise now seditious persons murthered godly and faithfull men where was wont to be the dwelling place of most wise and prudent men now it is made a common hostry of wicked murtherers theeves O Lord God of Israel have not Angels in time past come down from heaven to earth to fight thy battels Have not the