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But Sanballat thought he had now gotten a proper opportunity to make
his attempt, so he renounced Darius, and taking with him seven thousand
of his own subjects, he came to Alexander; and finding him beginning the
siege of Tyre, he said to him, that he delivered up to him these men, who
came out of places under his dominion, and did gladly accept of him for
his lord instead of Darius. So when Alexander had received him kindly,
Sanballat thereupon took courage, and spake to him about his present affair.
He told him that he had a son-in-law, Manasseh, who was brother to the
high priest Jaddua; and that there were many others of his own nation,
now with him, that were desirous to have a temple in the places subject
to him; that it would be for the king's advantage to have the strength
of the Jews divided into two parts, lest when the nation is of one mind,
and united, upon any attempt for innovation, it prove troublesome to kings,
as it had formerly proved to the kings of Assyria. Whereupon Alexander
gave Sanballat leave so to do, who used the utmost diligence, and built
the temple, and made Manasseh the priest, and deemed it a great reward
that his daughter's children should have that dignity; but when the seven
months of the siege of Tyre were over, and the two months of the siege
of Gaza, Sanballat died. Now Alexander, when he had taken Gaza, made haste
to go up to Jerusalem; and Jaddua the high priest, when he heard that,
was in an agony, and under terror, as not knowing how he should meet the
Macedonians, since the king was displeased at his foregoing disobedience.
He therefore ordained that the people should make supplications, and should
join with him in offering sacrifice to God, whom he besought to protect
that nation, and to deliver them from the perils that were coming upon
them; whereupon God warned him in a dream, which came upon him after he
had offered sacrifice, that he should take courage, and adorn the city,
and open the gates; that the rest should appear in white garments, but
that he and the priests should meet the king in the habits proper to their
order, without the dread of any ill consequences, which the providence
of God would prevent. Upon which, when he rose from his sleep, he greatly
rejoiced, and declared to all the warning he had received from God. According
to which dream he acted entirely, and so waited for the coming of the king.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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