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The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
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Containing The Interval Of About One Year.


From The Siege Of Gamala To The Coming
Of Titus To Besiege Jerusalem.


CHAPTER 1.


The Siege And Taking Of Gamala.

1. Now all those Galileans who, after the taking of Jotapata,
had revolted from the Romans, did, upon the conquest of

Taricheae, deliver themselves up to them again. And the
Romans received all the fortresses and the cities, excepting
Gischala and those that had seized upon Mount Tabor; Gamala also,
which is a city ever against Tarichem, but on the other side of
the lake, conspired with them. This city lay Upon the borders of
Agrippa's kingdom, as also did Sogana and Scleucia. And these
were both parts of Gaulanitis; for Sogana was a part of that
called the Upper Gaulanitis, as was Gamala of the Lower; while
Selcucia was situated at the lake Semechouitis, which lake is
thirty furlongs in breadth, and sixty in length; its marshes
reach as far as the place Daphne, which in other respects is a
delicious place, and hath such fountains as supply water to what
is called Little Jordan, under the temple of the golden calf, (1)
where it is sent into Great Jordan. Now Agrippa had united Sogana
and Seleucia by leagues to himself, at the very beginning of the
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