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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 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.
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