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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.). Search the whole document.
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Gophna (Israel) (search for this): book 1, section 41
Judea (Israel) (search for this): book 1, section 41
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
Bethzacharis, where the passage was narrow, Judas met him with his army.
However, before the forces joined battle, Judas's brother Eleazar, seeing
the very highest of the elephants adorned with a large tower, and with
military trappings of gold to guard him, and supposing that Antiochus himself
was upon him, he ran a great way before his own army, and cutting his way
through the enemy's troops, he got up to the elephant; yet could he not
reach him who seemed to be the king, by reason of his being so high; but
still he ran his weapon into the belly of the beast, and brought him down
upon himself, and was crushed to death, having done no more than attempted
great things, and showed that he preferred glory before life. Now he that
governed the elephant was but
Jerusalem (Israel) (search for this): book 1, section 41
Syria (Syria) (search for this): book 1, section 41