c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.381

The Wars of the Jews 5.381

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.381

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

381Was not our queen sent back, without any defilement, to her husband, the very next evening?—while the king of Egypt fled away, adoring this place which you have defiled by shedding thereon the blood of your own countrymen; and he also trembled at those visions which he saw in the night season, and bestowed both silver and gold on the Hebrews, as on a people beloved by God.