[194] “Ant.,” XIII. v. 11.
[195] Ibid., XIII. vi. 7; “Wars,” I. ii. 2, V. iv. 1.
[196] “Ant.,” XV. xi. 5.
[197] The name Makkabi (“hammerer”), applied to the third brother Judas. His ancestor Ḥasmon (“Ant.,” XII. vi. 1) was of the priestly family of Johoiarib, the first of the twenty-four courses (1 Chron. xxiv. 7).
[198] 1 Macc. iv. 38.
[199] Mishnah, Middoth, i. 6.
[200] 1 Macc. vi. 48, 49, 53, 62.
[201] 1 Macc. vii. 1–47.
[202] Alcimus, however, is said (1 Macc. ix. 54) to have pulled down the inner wall of the sanctuary, and the “works of the prophets”—probably the walls of the courts erected by Zerubbabel in the days of the prophets Haggai and Zechariah.
[203] 1 Macc. ix. 15; “Ant.,” XII. x. 2, xi. 1.