e was exceedingly glad, and sent the letters to the king and queen, who
were then about Berytus. But when king Agrippa knew that the story about
Philip was false, [for it had been given out, that the Jews had begun
a war with the Romans, and that this Philip had been their commander in
that war,] he sent some horsemen to conduct Philip to him; and when he
was come, he saluted him very obligingly, and showed him to the Roman
commanders, and told them that this was the man of whom the report had
gone about as if he had revolted from the Romans. He also bid him to
take some horsemen with him, and to go quickly to the citadel of
Gamala, and to bring out thence all his domestics, and to restore the
Babylonians to Batanea again. He also gave it him in charge to take all
possible care that none of his subjects should be guilty of making any
innovation. Accordingly, upon these directions from the king, he made
haste to do what he was commanded.

37. Now there was one Joseph, the son of a female physician, who excited
a great many young men to join with him. He also insolently addressed
himself to the principal persons at Gamala, and persuaded them to revolt
from the king; and take up arms, and gave them hopes that they should,
by his means, recover their liberty. And some they forced into the
service, and those that would not acquiesce in what they had resolved
on, they slew. They also slew Chares, and with him Jesus, one of his
kinsmen, and a brother of Justus of Tiberias, as we have already said.
Those of Gamala also wrote to me, desiring me to send them an armed
force, and workmen to raise up the walls of their city; nor did I reject
either of their requests. The region of Gaulanitis did also revolt
from the king, as far as the village Solyma. I also built a wall
about Seleucia and Soganni, which are villages naturally of ver great
strength. Moreover, I, in like manner, walled several villages of Upper
Galilee, though they were very rocky of themselves. Their names are
Jamnia, and Meroth, and Achabare. I also fortified, in the Lower
Galilee, the cities Tarichee, Tiberias, Sepphoris, and the villages, the
cave of Arbela, Bersobe, Selamin, Jotapata, Capharecho, and Sigo, and
Japha, and Mount Tabor. [15] I also laid up a great quantity of corn
in these places, and arms withal, that might be for their security
afterward.

38. But the hatred that John, the son of Levi, bore to me, grew now
more violent, while he could not bear m