BARZAPHERNES, Commander in chief of the several Armies belonging to Pacorus King of Parthia. Barzaphernes being sent into Palestine, to the assistance of Antigonus King of the Jews against Hircanus, and Herod; he took Hircanus prisoner, re-established Antigonus at Jerusalem, and obliged Herod to fly. As may be seen more at large in the Articles of Antigonus, and Hircanus, and in Josephus, Antiq. l. xiv. c. 25.
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