ragaba

Updated: June 15, 2025

The Jews also possessed others of the principal cities of Syria, which had been destroyed. After this, king Alexander, although he fell into a distemper by hard drinking, and had a quartan ague, which held him three years, yet would not leave off going out with his army, till he was quite spent with the labors he had undergone, and died in the bounds of Ragaba, a fortress beyond Jordan.

Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews