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accurately determined from JosepTius ' s Antiquities , To the Maccabee brothers ^ celebrated in th f -first book of Maccabees the sons of Mattathias succeeded the grandsons and remote descendants of that warlike priest . Of these John ( Hyrcanus I . ) the successor of Simon , was the most illustrious . The whole
of Samaria ^ not excepting Sichera 5 was reduced by him , and the temple on MountGarizhi ) ^ so odious to the Jews , destroyed . Ant . xiii . 11 , 18 * .. 450—4-53 . ( Hudson , 5 . S 3—588 . ) Ephraira , i . e * the remnant of the Ten Tribes , might now be once more
spoken of as united with-Judah ; exactly as we find it in the place quoted above from Zechariah ( ver . i . bx ~\ W > . 'Dnttf— ^> D 1 . v . 10 . D * " ) DKD ) . The Tduineans were compelled by Hyrcanus to be circumcised , or to unite themselves to the Jews , and acknowledge Jehovah . Ant . ubisup . ' YgKavog , ditocvlag rag I $ v-
pxisgvto ^ ei ^ iovg * n oir > rotrj , £ vog , Etfergs'irsv otvlo ig '[^ svsiv ev ^ - % ^ f a , £ i . ^ f-% {\ e \ LV £ iv re ? oc aiSoia , xoti toig IsScciqig vo [ xoig y ^ eSct iy Oshoisv . qi Ss Tto&iy ^ g tfoCl ^ iH yyf , xai rrjv tte ^ iIo ^ v Y . ' ou trpaXXr ^ rs fiia hcalav vitsfLEWOLv ty jv avr ^ v 701 $ IgSocioig 7 ? Oirj < rocScti . . KotxEivog auloig X £ ovo $ vy " q . § x > ° " slyocl ro Ao ' j / isSxisg . This extension of the tlieocracyis thus alluded to ( ver . 1 . D 1 K \> y nin > b > 2 , sc . nATl )—After the theocratical dominion had been extended to the ancient inheritance of the tribes of Israel ^ and the remains of the posterity of Esau had been politically united to the descendants of a common ancestor , Abraham , the posterity of Jacob , men ' s
hopes were naturally turned towards their immediate neighbours—the Arabian Hadracenes , the Damascenes , the Hamathenesj the Syrian and Sidonian Phoenicians , and the Philistines , who all lay about Palestine in a semicircle . Hyrcanus received from the Romans , under their guaranty , Joppa and
the sea-ports , Gazara and the springs , and all the towns which Antiochus had taken from the Jews . / ' Antiq . ubi . sup .. Under the phrase all the towns" may be easily included all that are enumerated , Zech . ix . 1—6 . Jonathan had already penetrated at one time as far as Hamath , Big * 'A [ Aa&fhv y ^^ ocv ( nDH ) I Mace .
xiu 25 . Antiq . xiiu 9 . 442 [ 575 ]; and , at another ^ a £ for as Damascus and Nabathean Arabia , ubi sup . Simoii "Kad already subdued Ashdod ; destroyed the temple of Dagon ; taken possession of Ekron ; received the toparchy of that town for Jonathan ^ and put a garrison in Askalon . Antiq . ubi sppra ,
the age of the'Lamentation' ( xi . I—3 ) for some great defeat , in which the commanders and the most valiant of the warriors were left on the field of battle , and the parable , or piece of poetry , which follows it ( xi . 3—17 ) . As little does the picture of the prevalence of the true religion , an < l of the impregnability of the city , carry decisive marks of its age ( xii . 1 . — xiii . 6 . ) * The reader will observe that the references to the chapters correspond nat with Hudson , ' s divisions , but with the numbers in his outer margin .
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656 Paulus * Commentary upon % cek . ' 7 jl \ - ~ -x . i .
