A History of the Jewish People During the Babylonian Persian And Greek Periods
A History of the Jewish People During the Babylonian Persian And Greek Periods
Charles Foster Kent And Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
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Its king, thereupon, betrayed his city and allies into the hands of the Persians. In keeping with his usual treacherous policy, Ochus repaid the perfidy of Tennes by murdering him, and by slay- ing the principal citizens of Sidon who came to plead for clemency. The remainder, preferring death by their own hands to the mercy of this bloodthirsty Oriental despot, shut themselves within their homes, and then burned them over their heads. It is reported that in this manner forty thousand perished. ...After having reduced to ruins the centre of rebellion in Syria, Ochus advanced with his main army to the con- quest of Egypt, which he completed by 343 b. C. 219. The part which the Jews took in this great uprising, and the fate which overtook them, like cer- tain other unpleasant events in their history, are only obscurely recorded by their historians. The narrative of the chronicler stops abruptly with the institution of the Priestly Law, and Josephus is almost equally silent. He does, however, associate with the name of '' Bagoas, the general of another Artaxerxes, " an enslavement of the Jewish people and a pollution of their temple (Ant.
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