Jonathan (brother of Judas)

Also known as: Jonathan · Family: Jewish · Role: leader · First appears: Book I, Chapter 2

Life events

Trypho put Jonathan to death.(Book I, Chapter 2)
- With: Trypho
- “he put Jonathan to death.”

siblings with Judas (son of Matthias) “When Jonathan, who was Judas's brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own people;”
siblings with Simon (brother of Jonathan) “but when he was afterward driven away by Simon, who was Jonathan's brother, and was enraged at his defeat, he put Jonathan to death.”
enemies with Trypho “Yet was not all this sufficient for his security; for the tyrant Trypho, who was guardian to Antiochus's son, laid a plot against him; and besides that, endeavored to take off his friends, and caught Jonathan by a wile, as he was going to Ptolemais to Antiochus, with a few persons in his company, and put him in bonds, and then made an expedition against the Jews; but when he was afterward driven away by Simon, who was Jonathan's brother, and was enraged at his defeat, he put Jonathan to death.”
with Antiochus (They made a league.) “He also made a league with Antiochus the son.”

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