Jairus

Family: Jewish · Role: father of Eleazar · First appears: Book II, Chapter 17

Book II, Chapter 17

• child: Eleazar, the son of Jairus “among whom was Eleazar, the son of Jairus, who was of kin to Manahem”

Book VII, Chapter 6

• child: Judas (son of Jairus) (Judas is explicitly identified as Jairus's son.) “but not one of the Jews escaped out of this battle, but they were all killed, being in the whole not fewer in number than three thousand, together with Judas, the son of Jairus, their general, concerning whom we have before spoken, that he had been a captain of a certain band at the siege of Jerusalem, and by going down into a certain vault under ground, had privately made his escape.”

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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.