c. AD 94

J. AJ 16.142

The Antiquities of the Jews 16.142

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

16.142

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

1422. After this solemnity and these festivals were over, Herod erected another city in the plain called Capharsaba, where he chose out a fit place, both for plenty of water and goodness of soil, and proper for the production of what was there planted, where a river encompassed the city itself, and a grove of the best trees for magnitude was round about it: