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Absalom (3)

  1. ABSALOM, Uncle and Father-in-law to Aristobulus, King of the Jews. He was made prisoner by Pompey at the Siege of Jerusalem1, in the year of the World 3941, before Jesus Christ 59, before the vulgar Æra 63.

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  1. Joseph. Antiq. l. 14. c. 8. ↩

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