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

Samaria, to take the daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, to wife,
who had been betrothed to him before, as we have already said; and thus he
accomplished this by the by, during the siege of the city, for he had his
enemies in great contempt already.
9. When he had thus married Mariamne, he came back to Jerusalem with
a greater army. Sosius also joined him with a large army, both of horsemen
and footmen, which he sent before him through the midland parts, while he
marched himself along Phoenicia; and when the whole army was gotten
together, which were eleven regiments of footmen, and six thousand
horsemen, besides the Syrian auxiliaries, which were no small part of the
army, they pitched their camp near to the north wall. Herod's dependence
was upon the decree of the senate, by which he was made king; and Sosius
relied upon Antony, who sent the army that was under him to Herod's
assistance.
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