Eleazar (unresolved ch107)

Also known as: Eleazar · Family: Sicarii · Role: commander of the Sicarii · First appears: Book VII, Chapter 8

Life events

c. 72 · Eleazar and the Sicarii seize Masada by treachery.(Book VII, Chapter 8 · 📍 Masada)
- “all which Eleazar found there, when he and his Sicarii got possession of the fortress by treachery.”
c. 72 · Flavius Silva leads the Roman army against Masada and begins its siege.(Book VII, Chapter 8 · 📍 Masada)
- With: Flavius Silva
- “For now it was that the Roman general came, and led his army against Eleazar and those Sicarii who held the fortress Masada together with him;”
c. 72 · Roman fire destroys the Sicarii's inner wall after their outer wall is breached.(Book VII, Chapter 8 · 📍 Masada)
- With: Flavius Silva
- “So the Romans, having now assistance from God, returned to their camp with joy, and resolved to attack their enemies the very next day;”
c. 72 · Eleazar decides to have the defenders, their wives, and children slain rather than enslaved.(Book VII, Chapter 8 · 📍 Masada)
- “he consulted about having them all slain.”
c. 72 · Eleazar's proposal divides the defenders, as some support it while others dissent.(Book VII, Chapter 8 · 📍 Masada)
- “Yet did not the opinions of all the auditors acquiesce therein;”

enemies with Flavius Silva (Silva led the Roman army against Eleazar.) “For now it was that the Roman general came, and led his army against Eleazar and those Sicarii who held the fortress Masada together with him”
with Judas (unresolved ch107) (Judas was an ancestor of Eleazar.) “It was one Eleazar, a potent man, and the commander of these Sicarii, that had seized upon it. He was a descendant from that Judas who had persuaded abundance of the Jews”
elder kin: Judas (unresolved ch107) (Judas is identified as Eleazar's ancestor.) “He was a descendant from that Judas who had persuaded abundance of the Jews, as we have formerly related, not to submit to the taxation when Cyrenius was sent into Judea to make one”

Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.