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

ear this blow, so that when the multitude of them which was gathered
together saw that those in the village were slain, they dispersed themselves,
and fled away; upon the confidence of which victory, Herod had marched
immediately to Jerusalem, unless he tad been hindered by the depth of
winter's [coming on]. This was the impediment that lay in the way of this his
entire glorious progress, and was what hindered Antigonus from being now
conquered, who was already disposed to forsake the city.
7. Now when at the evening Herod had already dismissed his friends to
refresh themselves after their fatigue, and when he was gone himself, while
he was still hot in his armor, like a common soldier, to bathe himself, and
had but one servant that attended him, and before he was gotten into the bath,
one of the enemies met him in the face with a sword in his hand, and then a
second, and then a third, and after that more of them; these were men who
had run away out of the battle into the bath in their armor, and they had lain
there for some time in, great terror, and in privacy; and when they saw the
king, they trembled for fear, and ran by him in a flight, although he was
naked, and endeavored to get off into the public road. Now there was by
chance nobody else at hand that might seize upon these men; and for Herod,
he was contented to have come to no harm himself, so that they all got away
in safety.
8. But on the next day Herod had Pappus's head cut off, who was the
general for Antigonus, and was slain in the battle, and sent it to his brother
Pheroras, by way of punishment for their slain brother; for he was the man
that slew Joseph. Now as winter was going off, Herod marched to Jerusalem,
and brought his army to the wall of it; this was the third year since he had
been made king at Rome; so he pitched his camp before the temple, for on
that side it might be besieged, and there it was that Pompey took the city. So
he parted the work among the army, and demolished the suburbs, end raised
three banks, and gave orders to have towers built upon those banks, and left
the most laborious of his acquaintance at the works. But he went himself to
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