-Barnes
New Testament Notes."No
less than one million one hundred thousand perished in the siege of Jerusalem."
Many were slain at other
places and at other times. By the commandment of Florus, the first author
of the war, there were slain at Jerusalem 3,600.....Josephus,
WAR, book ii. c. 14.
By the
inhabitants of Caesarea, above 20,000.
At Scythopolis,
above 13,000.
At Ascalon,
2,500.
At Ptolemais,
2,000.
At Alexandria,
50,000.
At Joppa,
when taken by Cestius Gallus, 8,400.
In a
mountain called Asamon, near Sepporis, above 2,000.
At Damascus,
10,000.
In a
battle with the Romans at Ascalon, 10,000.
In an
ambuscade (ambush) near the same place, 8,000.
At Japha,
15,000.
Of the
Samaritans, on Mount Gerizim, 11,600.
At Jotapa,
40,000.
At Joppa,
when taken by Vespasian, 4,200.
At Tarichea,
6,500.
And after
the city was taken, 1,200.
At Gamala,
4,000, besides 5,000 who threw themselves down
a precipice.
Of those
who fled with John, of Gischala, 6,000.
Of the
Gadarenes, 15,000 slain, besides countless multitudes
drowned.
In the
village of Idumea, above 10,000 slain.
At Gerasa,
1,000.
At Machaerus,
1,700.
In the
wood of Jardes, 3,000.
In the
castle of Masada, 960.
In Cyrene,
by Catullus the governor, 3,000.
Besides these, many of every
age, sex and condition were slain in the war, who are not reckoned; but,
of those who are reckoned, the number amounts to upwards of 1,357,660,
which would have appeared incredible, if their own historian had not so
particularly enumerated them. See Josephus, WAR, book ii)"