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And when Alexander
had been both king and high priest twenty-seven years, he departed this
life, and permitted his wife Alexandra to appoint him that should he high
priest; so she gave the high priesthood to Hyrcanus, but retained the kingdom
herself nine years, and then departed this life. The like duration [and
no longer] did her son Hyrcanus enjoy the high priesthood; for after her
death his brother Aristobulus fought against him, and beat him, and deprived
him of his principality; and he did himself both reign, and perform the
office of high priest to God. But when he had reigned three years, and
as many months, Pompey came upon him, and not only took the city of Jerusalem
by force, but put him and his children in bonds, and sent them to Rome.
He also restored the high priesthood to Hyrcanus, and made him governor
of the nation, but forbade him to wear a diadem. This Hyrcanus ruled, besides
his first nine years, twenty-four years more, when Barzapharnes and Pacorus,
the generals of the Parthians, passed over Euphrates, and fought with Hyrcanus,
and took him alive, and made Antigonus, the son of Aristobulus, king; and
when he had reigned three years and three months, Sosius and Herod besieged
him, and took him, when Antony had him brought to Antioch, and slain there.
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