There he chose six hundred select horsemen, and went to take a view of the city, to observe its strength and how courageous the Jews would be when they saw him, and before they came to a direct battle, whether they would be terrified and submit for he had been truthfully informed that the people who had fallen under the power of the rebels and the robbers greatly desired peace but, being too weak to rise up against the rest, they did nothing. Now Titus went in the front of the army in a decent manner according to Roman form, and marched through Samaria to Gophna, a city formerly taken by his father, and then garrisoned by Roman soldiers : when he had lodged there one night, he marched on in the morning and when he had gone a full day’s march, he pitched his camp at that valley which the Jews, in their own tongue, call “the Valley of Thorns,” near a certain village called Gabaothsaul, which means, “the Hill of Saul,” about three and three-quarter miles distant from Jerusalem.
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