c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.70

The Wars of the Jews 1.70

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.70

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

701. For after the death of their father, the elder of them, Aristobulus, changed the government into a kingdom, and was the first that put a diadem upon his head, four hundred seventy and one years and three months after our people came down into this country, when they were set free from the Babylonian slavery.