The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XIII. Gaza. (Book 13)

AFTER very many histories of this place in the Holy Bible, which there is no need to repeat here, a 1.1 in this City did Alexander the Great at length besiege Baba∣mesis the Persian by the space of two months. b 1.2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. And that City, which before time was most famous, was laid wast by him, and rendred desert. Not that he had destroyed the building of the City, or con∣sumed it with fire (for presently after his death, Antigonus and Ptolomy its Captains sighting, c 1.3 it had walls, gates and fortifications) but that he devested it of its antient glory, so that it was at last melted into a new City of that name built nearer the Sea, where formerly had been 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Haven of the Gazaeans. That is called by Dio∣clorus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, old Gaza, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Gaza desert, by Strabo, and the New Testa∣ment, Act. VIII. 26. At last it was called New Maijuma, and after that Constantia. Con∣cerning which see Eusebius of the life of Constantine, Book IV. Chap. XXVIII. and Sozo∣men his Ecclesiastical History, Book V. Chap. III.

d 1.4 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is mentioned by the Talmudists, which, the Glosser interpreting, was a certain street without the City Gaza; where was a shambles, and where there also was an Idol Temple.

e 1.5 There is mentioned also the Mart of Gaza, one of the three more famed Marts, to wit, that of Gaza, and of Aco, and of Botna, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

f 1.6 There was a place also without the City, which was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Wast (or desert) of the Lepers Cloister.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Joseph. Antiq. lib. 11. c. 18.
• b 1.2

  Strabo, lib. 16
• c 1.3

  Diod. Sicul. lib. 19.
• d 1.4

  Bab. Avodah Zara, fol. 11. 2.
• e 1.5

  Hieros. Avodah Zara, fol. 39. 4.
• f 1.6

  Bab. Sanhedr. fol. 71. 1.