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Absalom (2)

  1. ABSALOM, of Jerusalem, induced Manahem, the Son of Judas the Galilæan, to think of making himself King of the Jews1, in the twelfth year of Nero’s Reign, and the sixty sixth of the vulgar Æra.

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  1. Joseph. de Bello, l. 2. c. 33. ↩

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