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become a day of mirth and festivity, he ordered the most illustrious of his subjects to be imprisoned, and murdered at the moment that he expired, so that every eye in the kingdom might seem to shed tears at the death of Herod. He died in the seventieth year of his age, of a most loathsome and agonizing disease.

Judea now became a Roman province, and after being under the government of Roman procurators for some years, the Jewish state was subverted by Titus, son of Vespasian, A.D. 79.

EXERCISES.

How was Judea governed after the death of Alexander?
What caused Antiochus to make war against the Jews?

How did he treat the Jews whom he subdued?

What celebrated man, at this time, was roused to vindicate the cause of the Jews?

What became of Antiochus?

What happened in Judea in the reign of Demetrius?

What became of Alcimas?

Which of the Asmonean race first assumed the title of king?

In what state was Judea under the government of John Hyrcanus?
What melancholy circumstance now disturbed the peace of Judea?
At what period did Judea become a Roman province?

Whom did Julius Cæsar declare king?

Who succeeded him?

To whom was he married?

What caused Herod to put her to death?

CONCLUSION.

After the second division of the empire, although Alexander's generals acted as independent princes, they all still affected to acknowledge a kind of submission to Alexander, the young king of Macedon.

Cassander, however, enraged that his father Antipater should overlook him, and devolve the regency on Polysperchon, resolved upon revenge, and accordingly, by means of a powerful party, whom he gained over to his interest, he very shortly usurped the throne of Macedon. Olympias, the mother of Alexander, anxious to keep the throne for his children, destroyed the relations of Cassander, who in revenge put her to death; and not more than twenty years after the death of Alexander the Great not a single branch of his family remained to enjoy a portion of that empire which he and his father Philip had acquired at the price of the greatest policy, cruelty, and danger.

Twelve kings governed Macedonia from the reign of Cassander; but Perseus, the last of these, having provoked the Romans to a war through his ambition, after various successes, Macedonia was finally reduced, and governed by a pro-consul, about one hundred and forty-eight years before the Christian era.

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