[256] See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XI, vii, 1; cf. also G. A. Smith, Jerusalem, II, 358-361.
[257] See Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XII, i.
[258] See Ecclesiasticus iii-v, vii, ix, xxiii, xxv, ff., and xxviii.
[259] See Eccles. 50:1-4.
[260] Cf. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XII, v, 1.
[261] See Selah Merrill, Ancient Jerusalem, New York, 1908, pp. 83-88.
[262] See G. A. Smith, Jerusalem, II, 447-452.
[263] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XII, v, 1.
[264] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, vi, 7.