c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.235

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.235

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.235

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

235and then the forementioned Antiochus, and Lysias the general of his army, deprived Onias, who was also called Menelaus, of the high priesthood, and slew him at Berea; and driving away the son [of Onias the third], put Jacimus into the place of the high priest, one that was indeed of the stock of Aaron, but not of the family of Onias.