royal revolt 2 tower defense something unexpected happened

But Onias the high-priest fled to Ptolemy, and received a place from him in the Nomus of Heliopolis, where he built a city resembling Jerusalem, and a temple that was like its temple (1) concerning which we shall speak more in its proper place hereafter.Ģ. He also spoiled the temple, and put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months.

The king, being thereto disposed beforehand, complied with them, and came upon the Jews with a great army, and took their city by force, and slew a great multitude of those that favoured Ptolemy, and sent out his soldiers to plunder them without mercy. However, Onias, one of the high-priests, got the better, and cast the sons of Tobias out of the city who fled to Antiochus, and besought him to make use of them for his leaders, and to make an expedition into Judea. At the same time that Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, had a quarrel with the sixth Ptolemy about his right to the whole country of Syria, a great sedition fell among the men of power in Judea, and they had a contention about obtaining the government while each of those that were of dignity could not endure to be subject to their equals. As also concerning the actions of the Maccabees, Matthias, and Judas and concerning the death of Judas.ġ. How the city Jerusalem was taken, and the temple pillaged.

From the taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes, to the death of Herod the Great.

Royal revolt 2 tower defense something unexpected happened