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Ananias (VI)

VI. ANANIAS, Son of Mashbal, of the priestly race, and originally of Emmaus, was put to death by Simon, Head of a party of Malecontents. He was killed, together with fifteen other principal Jews of the City1, during the last siege of Jerusalem by the Romans.

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  1. Joseph. de Bello, l. vi. c. 15. ↩

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