c. AD 94

J. AJ 13.397

The Antiquities of the Jews 13.397

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

13.397

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

397in the country of Moab, Heshbon, and Medaba, Lemba, and Oronas, Gelithon, Zara, the valley of the Cilices, and Pella; which last they utterly destroyed, because its inhabitants would not bear to change their religious rites for those peculiar to the Jews. The Jews also possessed others of the principal cities of Syria, which had been destroyed.