Joseph (unresolved ch022)
Also known as: Joseph · Family: Herodian family · Role: husband of Salome · First appears: Book I, Chapter 22
Life events
- Herod ordered Joseph to kill Mariamne if Antony killed Herod.(Book I, Chapter 22)
- With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) Mariamne (daughter of Alexander son of Aristobulus)
- “he also gave him a secret injunction, that if Antony slew him, he should slay her.”
- Joseph revealed Herod's secret death order to Mariamne.(Book I, Chapter 22)
- With: Mariamne (daughter of Alexander son of Aristobulus) Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
- “But Joseph, without any ill design, and only in order to demonstrate the king's love to his wife, how he could not bear to think of being separated from her, even by death itself, discovered this grand secret to her”
- Herod ordered Mariamne and Joseph slain, then repented when his anger subsided.(Book I, Chapter 22)
- With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) Mariamne (daughter of Alexander son of Aristobulus)
- “whereupon, out of his ungovernable jealousy and rage, he commanded both of them to be slain immediately; but as soon as ever his passion was over, he repented of what he had done”
Book I, Chapter 22
- married with Salome (sister of Herod) “he committed his wife to Joseph, his sister Salome's husband, as to one who would be faithful to him,”
- with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Herod commanded Joseph to be slain.) “whereupon, out of his ungovernable jealousy and rage, he commanded both of them to be slain immediately;”
- with Mariamne (daughter of Alexander son of Aristobulus) (Joseph disclosed Herod's secret to Mariamne.) “But Joseph, without any ill design, and only in order to demonstrate the king's love to his wife, how he could not bear to think of being separated from her, even by death itself, discovered this grand secret to her;”
- ward: Mariamne (daughter of Alexander son of Aristobulus) “he committed his wife to Joseph, his sister Salome's husband, as to one who would be faithful to him”
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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.