Judas (son of Hezekias)

Also known as: Judas · Family: rebels · Role: leader · First appears: Book II, Chapter 4

In Book II, Chapter 4, at Sepphoris, Judas, son of Hezekias, led the rebels in seizing the royal armory, arming his followers, and attacking those seeking dominion. He was the son of Hezekias, who had formerly overrun the country before being subdued by King Herod.

Relationship record

Life events

• Judas armed followers after seizing the royal armory and attacked the king's forces.(Book II, Chapter 4 · 📍 Sepphoris)
  • With: Hezekias
  • “this man got no small multitude together, and brake open the place where the royal armor was laid up, and armed those about him, and attacked those that were so earnest to gain the dominion.”
• Judas persuaded Galileans to revolt against Roman taxation and rule.(Book II, Chapter 8 · 📍 Judea)
  • “Under his administration it was that a certain Galilean, whose name was Judas, prevailed with his countrymen to revolt”

Book II, Chapter 4

• parent: Hezekias “In Sepphoris also, a city of Galilee, there was one Judas [the son of that arch-robber Hezekias, who formerly overran the country, and had been subdued by king Herod]; this man got no small multitude together, and brake open the place where the royal armor was laid up, and armed those about him, and attacked those that were so earnest to gain the dominion.”

Also listed in Rebels — Minor Figures

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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.