Yigal and His Three Generals

             Yigals and his three Generals is a story of courage and thrust. Yigal, a simple olive worker, spoke up for the safety of a small town called Makor. In this story, the town of Makor has to resist two Roman armies. The first being Petronius and his men, who were suppose to place a statue of Caligula all over the known world, and the second being Vespasian and his men, who were sent by Nero to stop all the revolts of the Jews and conquer everything for Rome.
             When Caesar Caligula ordered that General Petronius was to place the Caligula statues throughout the known world the Jews in Makor were distressed. They did not want a graven image of anything put in their town. They worshipped God and no one else. When Yigal heard about what was going to happen he went to the leader of the town, Simeon, an old wise man, and told him that they must resist the forces of Petronius. Simeon did not agree with Yigal's reasoning, but there was one person who promptly agrees and sided with Yigal. This man's name was Naaman. So together, Naaman and Yigal made plans to resist the Romans, against Simeon's wishes.
             However, Yigal and Naaman did not do this alone, many other people of the town also agreed with them and joined them in their resist. So one day, Yigal, Naaman, and their people left the little town of Makor and headed out for where the Romans army was, Ptolemais. There they made camp and rested for Makor, but blocking their way was Yigal and Naaman. Yigal argued with Petronius telling him that they would not allow the graven images of Caligula into their land. Yigal and Naaman were taken prisoners, and Petronius's army continued their march to Makor. On the road a little ways further they found a large group of Jews blocking the road. These were Yigal's people. They were instructed not to move off the road for Petronius and his army. Petronius tried for many days to get these people off the road without killing them, but ...

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