Hezekias

Family: Syrian · Role: head of the robbers · First appears: Book I, Chapter 10

In Book I, Chapter 10, Hezekias was the Syrian head of the robbers, running over the neighboring parts of Syria with a great band of men. Herod caught and killed him, along with many other robbers: “he caught him and slew him, and many more of the robbers with him.”

In Book II, Chapter 4, at Sepphoris, Hezekias’s son Judas gathered a multitude, broke open the royal armory, armed his followers, and attacked those seeking dominion.

Relationship record

Life events

• Herod captured and killed Hezekias and many other robbers.(Book I, Chapter 10 · 📍 Syria)
  • With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
  • “As therefore he found that Hezekias, the head of the robbers, ran over the neighboring parts of Syria with a great band of men, he caught him and slew him, and many more of the robbers with him;”
• Judas armed followers after seizing the royal armory and attacked the king's forces.(Book II, Chapter 4 · 📍 Sepphoris)
  • With: Judas (son of 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.”

Book I, Chapter 10

• enemies with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) “he caught him and slew him, and many more of the robbers with him”
• with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Herod killed Hezekias.) “he caught him and slew him, and many more of the robbers with him”

Book II, Chapter 4

• child: Judas (son of 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.”
• with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (Herod had previously subdued 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.”

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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.