Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC)
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| Siege of Jerusalem | |||||||||
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| Part of the Hasmonean civil war | |||||||||
Pompey enters the Jerusalem Temple. Painting by Jean Fouquet, after an event recorded by Flavius Josephus in The Antiquities of the Jews. | |||||||||
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| Roman Republic | Hasmonean Kingdom | ||||||||
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Pompey the Great Faustus Sulla | Aristobulus II | ||||||||
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| 12 000 Roman troops | |||||||||
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| Jerusalem |
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The siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) occurred during Pompey the Great's campaigns in the East, shortly after his successful conclusion of the Third Mithridatic War. Pompey had been asked to intervene in a dispute over succession to the Hasmonean throne, which turned into a war between Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II. His conquest of Jerusalem spelled the end of an independent Jewish state, and thus the incorporation of Judea as a client kingdom of the Roman Republic and later as a province of the Roman Empire.