B. 12. C. 2. The second Ptolemy liberated 120,000 Jews who where in bondage in Egypt.
B. 12. C. 3. Antiochus set free all the Jews who had been carried captive.
B. 12. C. 4. The Samaritans were in a flourishing condition, and much distressed the Jews, cutting off parts of their land, and carrying off slaves.
B. 12. C. 5. The daily sacrifice was taken away, and 10,000 Jews carried captive.
B. 14. C. 7. The Jews were scattered over the habitable earth. Cassius, the Roman general, carried 30,000 Jews captive.
B. 14. C. 11. Four Jewish cities sold into slavery for taxes.
B. 15. C. 3. Not a few ten thousands of Jews that dwelt about Babylonia.
B. 16. C. 2. A great multitude of Jews dwelt in the cities of Ionia.
B. 16. C. 6. The cities of Asia and Lybia ill-treated the Jews. The northern part of Africa was then called Lybia.
These references to Josephus, and their contexts, well considered, will greatly assist the student in forming a proper idea of the scattered condition of the Jews about the commencement of the Christian era.