Aristobulus (VI)

VI. ARISTOBULUS, the Son of Herod the Great and Mariamne, and Brother to Alexander. He married Berenice Joseph’s Daughter, and Herod the Great’s Sister. He left three Sons, and two Daughters, viz. Herod, who was King of Chalcis; Agrippa, who was King of the Jews, and firnamed the Great, and Aristobulus, who married Jotape Daughter to the King of Emesa. The Daughters were 1°. Herodias, who married first Herod, otherwise called Philip her Uncle; then Antipas. 2°. Mariamne who married Antipater her Uncle by the Father’s side. Aristobulus the Father of all these children was put to death by Herod the Great’s orders, together In the Year of the World 3999. and before the birth of J. C.with his Brother Alexander. As the ill fortune of these two Brothers was always common, and the events of their lives are perpetually intermixed¹, the reader may consult the Life of Alexander, whereof we have given some account above.

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