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THAT which is usually the case of great armies, and especially upon
ill success, to be hard to be pleased, and governed with difficulty, did
now befall the Jews; for they being in number six hundred thousand, and
by reason of their great multitude not readily subject to their governors,
even in prosperity, they at this time were more than usually angry, both
against one another and against their leader, because of the distress they
were in, and the calamities they then endured. Such a sedition overtook
them, as we have not the like example either among the Greeks or the Barbarians,
by which they were in danger of being all destroyed, but were notwithstanding
saved by Moses, who would not remember that he had been almost stoned to
death by them. Nor did God neglect to prevent their ruin; but, notwithstanding
the indignities they had offered their legislator and the laws, and disobedience
to the commandments which he had sent them by Moses, he delivered them
from those terrible calamities which, without his providential care, had
been brought upon them by this sedition. So I will first explain the cause
whence this sedition arose, and then will give an account of the sedition
itself; as also of what settlements made for their government after it
was over.
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