The Antiquities of the Jews, 8.223

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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223but he was forbidden of God by the prophet [Shemaiah] to go to war, for that it was not just that brethren of the same country should fight one against another. He also said that this defection of the multitude was according to the purpose of God. So he did not proceed in this expedition.

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