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and then the forementioned Antiochus, and Lysias the general of
his army, deprived Onias, who was also called Menelaus, of the high priesthood,
and slew him at Berea; and driving away the son [of Onias the third], put
Jaeimus into the place of the high priest, one that was indeed of the stock
of Aaron, but not of that family of Onias. On which account Onias, who
was the nephew of Onias that was dead, and bore the same name with his
father, came into Egypt, and got into the friendship of Ptolemy Philometor,
and Cleopatra his wife, and persuaded them to make him the high priest
of that temple which he built to God in the prefecture of Heliopolis, and
this in imitation of that at Jerusalem; but as for that temple which was
built in Egypt, we have spoken of it frequently already. Now when Jacimus
had retained the priesthood three years, he died, and there was no one
that succeeded him, but the city continued seven years without a high priest.
But then the posterity of the sons of Asamoneus, who had the government
of the nation conferred upon them, when they had beaten the Macedonians
in war, appointed Jonathan to be their high priest, who ruled over them
seven years. And when he had been slain by the treacherous contrivance
of Trypho, as we have related some where, Simon his brother took the high
priesthood; and when he was destroyed at a feast by the treachery of his
son-in-law, his own son, whose name was Hyrcanus, succeeded him, after
he had held the high priesthood one year longer than his brother. This
Hyrcanus enjoyed that dignity thirty years, and died an old man, leaving
the succession to Judas, who was also called Aristobulus, whose brother
Alexander was his heir; which Judas died of a sore distemper, after he
had kept the priesthood, together with the royal authority; for this Judas
was the first that put on his head a diadem for one year.
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