Bacchides

Family: Seleucid · Role: commander · First appears: Book I, Chapter 1

Life events

Matthias killed Bacchides, defeated Antiochus’s generals, and became prince of Judea by popular consent.(Book I, Chapter 1 · 📍 Modin)
- With: Matthias (son of Asamoneus)
- “Accordingly Matthias, the son of Asamoneus, one of the priests who lived in a village called Modin, armed himself, together with his own family, which had five sons of his in it, and slew Bacchides with daggers; and thereupon, out of the fear of the many garrisons [of the enemy], he fled to the mountains; and so many of the people followed him, that he was encouraged to come down from the mountains, and to give battle to Antiochus's generals, when he beat them, and drove them out of Judea. So he came to the government by this his success, and became the prince of his own people by their own free consent”

with Matthias (son of Asamoneus) (Matthias killed Bacchides.) “Accordingly Matthias, the son of Asamoneus, one of the priests who lived in a village called Modin, armed himself, together with his own family, which had five sons of his in it, and slew Bacchides with daggers”
employer: Antiochus Epiphanes (Seleucid king) “Bacchides also, who was sent to keep the fortresses, having these wicked commands”

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