c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.388

The Wars of the Jews 5.388

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.388

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

388were not those hands lifted up to God in prayers, without meddling with their arms, when an angel of God destroyed that prodigious army in one night? when the Assyrian king, as he rose the next day, found a hundred fourscore and five thousand dead bodies, and when he, with the remainder of his army, fled away from the Hebrews, though they were unarmed, and did not pursue them.