c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.41

The Wars of the Jews 1.41

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.41

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

415. So this Antiochus got together fifty thousand footmen, and five thousand horsemen, and fourscore elephants, and marched through Judea into the mountainous parts. He then took Bethsura, which was a small city; but at a place called Bethzacharias, where the passage was narrow, Judas met him with his army.