Eleazar (son of Simon)

Also known as: Eleazar · Family: Jewish · Role: leader · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 4

In Book IV, Chapter 4, Eleazar is identified as the son of Simon and as a leader alongside Zacharias, with John also connected to him in the account. He “seemed the most plausible man of them all,” both in judging what should be done and in carrying out his decisions.

At that point, Eleazar and Zacharias resolved to summon the Idumeans for immediate military assistance, sending them a short letter. That night at Jerusalem, while Ananus’s guards slept during a storm, the zealots sawed through the temple gate bars and opened the gate opposite the Idumeans. The Idumeans entered the city and first hurried to release the imprisoned zealots.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eleazar and Zacharias summoned the Idumeans for immediate military assistance.(Book IV, Chapter 4)
  • With: Zacharias Ananias (first messenger) Ananias (second messenger)
  • “However, it was resolved to call in the Idumeans; so they wrote a short letter to this effect:”
• Ananus’s guards slept during the storm, allowing the zealots to cut through the temple gate bars.(Book IV, Chapter 4 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: Ananus Zacharias
  • “as the night was far gone, and the storm very terrible, Ananus gave the guards in the cloisters leave to go to sleep; while it came into the heads of the zealots to make use of the saws belonging to the temple, and to cut the bars of the gates to pieces.”
• The zealots opened the gate opposite the Idumeans, enabling them to enter Jerusalem.(Book IV, Chapter 4 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: Zacharias Simon son of Cathlas John (unresolved ch069) Jacob Phineas
  • “So they secretly went out of the temple to the wall of the city, and made use of their saws, and opened that gate which was over against the Idumeans.”
• The Idumeans entered the city and moved first to release the imprisoned zealots.(Book IV, Chapter 4 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • With: Zacharias Simon son of Cathlas John (unresolved ch069) Jacob Phineas
  • “but as they first of all made haste to get the zealots out of custody”

Book IV, Chapter 4

• parent: Simon (unresolved ch069) (Parent-to-child relation.) “These leaders were Eleazar, the son of Simon, who seemed the most plausible man of them all”
• with Zacharias (They are identified as co-leaders of the zealots.) “These leaders were Eleazar, the son of Simon, who seemed the most plausible man of them all, both in considering what was fit to be done, and in the execution of what he had determined upon, and Zacharias, the son of Phalek”
• with John (unresolved ch069) (John threatened Eleazar.) “These leaders were Eleazar, the son of Simon, who seemed the most plausible man of them all, both in considering what was fit to be done, and in the execution of what he had determined upon, and Zacharias, the son of Phalek; both of whom derived their families from the priests. Now when these two men had heard, not only the common threatenings which belonged to them all, but those peculiarly leveled against themselves;”

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