THE SANHEDRIM The Jewish soldiers haled Miriam roughly through dark and tortuous streets, bordered by burnt-out houses, and up steep stone slopes deep with the debris of the siege.

Indeed, they had need to hasten, for, lit with the lamp of flaming dwellings, behind them flowed the tide of war.
The Romans, driven back from this part of the city by that day's furious sally, under cover of the night were re-occupying in overwhelming strength the ground that they had lost, forcing the Jews before them and striving to cut them off from their stronghold in the Temple and that part of the Upper City which they still held.
The party of Jews who had Miriam in their charge were returning to the Temple enclosure, which they could not reach from the north or east because the outer courts and cloisters of the Holy House were already in possession of the Romans.

So it happened that they were obliged to make their way round by the Upper City, a long and tedious journey.

Once during that night they were driven to cover until a great company of Romans had marched past.

Caleb wished to attack them, but the other captains said that they were too few and weary, so they lay hid for nearly three hours, then went on again.