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World English Bible (ed. Rainbow Missions, Inc., Rainbow Missions, Inc.; revision of the American Standard Version of 1901) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Flavius Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus (ed. William Whiston, A.M.). You can also browse the collection for Jordan or search for Jordan in all documents.
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Flavius Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), section 32 (search)
Flavius Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), section 399 (search)
As soon as I had gotten intelligence of this, I sent two thousand
armed men, and a captain over them, whose name was Jeremiah, who raised
a bank a furlong off Julias, near to the river Jordan, and did no more
than skirmish with the enemy; till I took three thousand soldiers myself,
and came to them. But on the next day, when I had laid an ambush in a certain
valley, not far from the banks, I provoked those that belonged to the king
to come to a battle, and gave orders to my own soldiers to turn their backs
upon them, until they should have drawn the enemy away from their camp,
and brought them out into the field, which was done accordingly; for Sylla,
supposing that our party did really run away, was ready to pursue them,
when our soldiers that lay in ambush took them on their backs, and put
them all into great disorder. I also immediately made a sudden turn with
my own forces, and met those of the king's party, and put them to flight.
And I had performed great things that day, if a ce
Flavius Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), section 405 (search)
When Sylla and his party were informed what happened to me, they
took courage again; and understanding that the watch was negligently kept
in our camp, they by night placed a body of horsemen in ambush beyond Jordan,
and when it was day they provoked us to fight; and as we did not refuse
it, but came into the plain, their horsemen appeared out of that ambush
in which they had lain, and put our men into disorder, and made them run
away; so they slew six men of our side. Yet did they not go off with the
victory at last; for when they heard that some armed men were sailed from
Taricheae to Juli, they were afraid, and retired.