Jacimus
Family: Jewish · Role: father of Philip · First appears: Book II, Chapter 17
Jacimus, a Jewish father of Philip, is described in Book II, Chapter 17 as the father of a general in Agrippa’s army. In Chapter 20, Philip, identified again as Jacimus’s son and commander of Agrippa’s forces, fled the city and went to Cestius. By Book IV, Chapter 1, Jacimus is called an eminent man who had been a general in Agrippa’s army; at Gamala, Philip and his two daughters survived its capture by remaining concealed from the Roman soldiers.
Relationship record
Life events
- Philip and his two daughters survived Gamala's capture by remaining concealed from the Roman soldiers.(Book IV, Chapter 1 · 📍 Gamala)
- With: Philip (son of Jacimus)
- “nor did any one escape except two women, who were the daughters of Philip, and Philip himself was the son of a certain eminent man called Jacimus”
Book II, Chapter 17
- child: Philip (son of Jacimus) “Philip the son of Jacimus, the general of his army”
Book II, Chapter 20
- child: Philip the son of Jacimus “Philip, the son of Jacimus, who was the commander of king Agrippa's forces, ran away from the city, and went to Cestius.”
Book IV, Chapter 1
- employer: Agrippa (the present king) (Jacimus had served as general in Agrippa's army.) “Philip himself was the son of a certain eminent man called Jacimus, who had been general of king Agrippa's army”
- child: Philip (son of Jacimus) “Philip himself was the son of a certain eminent man called Jacimus, who had been general of king Agrippa's army”
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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.