From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus

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great esteem with Herod, and discovered Sylleus's grand secrets, and told the king that Sylleus had corrupted Corinthus, one of the guards of his body, by bribing him, and of whom he must therefore have a care. Accordingly, the king complied; for this Corinthus, though he was brought up in Herod's kingdom, yet was he by birth an Arabian; so the king ordered him to be taken up immediately, and not only him, but two other Arabians, who were caught with him; the one of them was Sylleus's friend, the other the head of a tribe. These last, being put to the torture, confessed that they had prevailed with Corinthus, for a large sum of money, to kill Herod; and when they had been further examined before Saturninus, the president of Syria, they were sent to Rome. 4. However, Herod did not leave off importuning Pheroras, but proceeded to force him to put away his wife; (2) yet could he not devise any way by which he could bring the woman herself to punishment, although he had many causes of hatred to her; till at length he was in such great uneasiness at her, that he cast both her and his brother out of his kingdom. Pheroras took this injury very patiently, and went away into his own tetrarchy, [Perea beyond Jordan,] and sware that there should be but one end put to his flight, and that should be Herod's death; and that he would never return while he was alive. Nor indeed would he return when his brother was sick, although he earnestly sent for him to come to him, because he had a mind to leave some injunctions with him before he died; but Herod unexpectedly recovered. A little afterward Pheroras himself fell sick, when Herod showed great moderation; for he came to him, and pitied his case, and took care of him; but his affection for him did him no good, for Pheroras died a little afterward. Now though Herod had so great an affection for him to the last day of his life, yet was a report spread abroad that he had killed him by poison. However, he took care to have his dead body carried to Jerusalem, and appointed a very great mourning to the whole nation for him, and bestowed a most pompous funeral upon him. And this was the end that one of Alexander's and Aristobulus's murderers came to. 131
Footnotes: 1. These daughters of Herod, whom Pheroras's wife affronted, were Salome and Roxana, two virgins, who were born to him of his two wives, Elpide and Phedra. See Herod's genealogy, Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 1. sect. 3. 2. This strange obstinacy of Pheroras in retaining his wife, who was one of a low family, and refusing to marry one nearly related to Herod, though he so earnestly desired it, as also that wife's admission to the counsels of the other great court ladies, together with Herod's own importunity as to Pheroras's divorce and other marriage, all so remarkable here, or in the Antiquities XVII. ch. 2. sect. 4; and ch. 3. be well accounted for, but on the supposal that Pheroras believed, and Herod suspected, that the Pharisees' prediction, as if the crown of Judea should be translated from Herod to Pheroras's posterity and that most probably to Pheroras's posterity by this his wife, also would prove true. See Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 2. sect. 4; and ch. 3. sect. 1. 132
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a brother slain! How long shall I m
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country, together with the Gileadir
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marching against the Arabians; so h
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Chapter 5 The Time the Pharisees We
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as the other cities, Sebaste and Ag
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Hyrcanus was treated unjustly, by b
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low. However, Pompey commanded him
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Chapter 7 Pompey Took the Temple by
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with their Divine worship, and were
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aristocracy. He also parted the who
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Judea; and, upon his taking Tariche
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had lived, to assist him, and came
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sung in Herod's commendation, both
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this by exhorting him to carry his
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Chapter 11 Herod Is Made Procurator
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father's death; but, upon hearing t
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Chapter 12 Antonius Makes Herod and
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took fifteen of them, and put them
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Herod, in his rage for killing them
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11. This was the death of Phasaelus
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eturned back, and went for Egypt. N
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guards that were there shot their a
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Chapter 16 Herod Goes to Antony as
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father of seven children, whose chi
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Josephus, has coins still remaining
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ut Sosius sent two legions before h
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ear this blow, so that when the mul
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Chapter 18 Herod and Sosius Took Je
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their commanders, and with a most r
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Chapter 19 Antony Sent Herod to Fig
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