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But on the next day, I brought ten thousand armed men with me, and
came to Tiberias. I then sent for the principal men of the multitude into
the public place, and enjoined them to tell me who were the authors of
the revolt; and when they told me who the men were, I sent them bound to
the city Jotapata. But as to Jonathan and Ananias, I freed them from their
bonds, and gave them provisions for their journey, together with Simon
and Joazar, and five hundred armed men who should guard them; and so I
sent them to Jerusalem. The people of Tiberias also came to me again, and
desired that I would forgive them for what they had done; and they said
they would amend what they had done amiss with regard to me, by their fidelity
for the time to come; and they besought me to preserve what spoils remained
upon the plunder of the city, for those that had lost them. Accordingly,
I enjoined those that had got them, to bring them all before us; and when
they did not comply for a great while, and I saw one of the soldiers that
were about me with a garment on that was more splendid than ordinary, I
asked him whence he had it; and when he replied that he had it out of the
plunder of the city, I had him punished with stripes; and I threatened
all the rest to inflict a severer punishment upon them, unless they produced
before us whatsoever they had plundered; and when a great many spoils were
brought together, I restored to every one of Tiberias what they claimed
to be their own.
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