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NOW the people of Cesarea had slain the Jews that were among them
on the very same day and hour [when the soldiers were slain], which one
would think must have come to pass by the direction of Providence; insomuch
that in one hour's time above twenty thousand Jews were killed, and all
Cesarea was emptied of its Jewish inhabitants; for Florus caught such as
ran away, and sent them in bonds to the galleys. Upon which stroke that
the Jews received at Cesarea, the whole nation was greatly enraged; so
they divided themselves into several parties, and laid waste the villages
of the Syrians, and their neighboring cities, Philadelphia, and Sebonitis,
and Gerasa, and Pella, and Scythopolis, and after them Gadara, and Hippos;
and falling upon Gaulonitis, some cities they destroyed there, and some
they set on fire, and then went to Kedasa, belonging to the Tyrians, and
to Ptolemais, and to Gaba, and to Cesarea; nor was either Sebaste [Samaria]
or Askelon able to oppose the violence with which they were attacked; and
when they had burnt these to the ground; they entirely demolished Anthedon
and Gaza; many also of the villages that were about every one of those
cities were plundered, and an immense slaughter was made of the men who
were caught in them.
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