The Antiquities of the Jews, 16.158

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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158But now the Jewish nation is by their law a stranger to all such things, and accustomed to prefer righteousness to glory; for which reason that nation was not agreeable to him, because it was out of their power to flatter the king’s ambition with statues or temples, or any other such performances;

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