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Continuing --

Now when Jacimus had retained the priesthood three years, he died, and there was no one
that succeeded him, but the city continued seven years without a high priest. But then the
posterity of the sons of Asamoneus, who had the government of the nation conferred upon
them, when they had beaten the Macedonians in war, appointed Jonathan to be their high
priest, who ruled over them seven years. And when he had been slain by the treacherous
contrivance of Trypho, as we have related some where, Simon his brother took the high
priesthood; and when he was destroyed at a feast by the treachery of his son-in-law, his
own son, whose name was Hyrcanus, succeeded him, after he had held the high priesthood
one year longer than his brother. This Hyrcanus enjoyed that dignity thirty years, and died
an old man, leaving the succession to Judas, who was also called Aristobulus, whose
brother Alexander was his heir; which Judas died of a sore distemper, after he had kept the
priesthood, together with the royal authority; for this Judas was the first that put on his
head a diadem for one year. And when Alexander had been both king and high priest
twenty-seven years, he departed this life, and permitted his wife Alexandra to appoint him
that should he high priest; so she gave the high priesthood to Hyrcanus, but retained the
kingdom herself nine years, and then departed this life. The like duration [and no longer]
did her son Hyrcanus enjoy the high priesthood; for after her death his brother Aristobulus
fought against him, and beat him, and deprived him of his principality; and he did himself
both reign, and perform the office of high priest to God.

According to Josephus --

But when he had reigned three years, and as many months, Pompey came upon him, and
not only took the city of Jerusalem by force, but put him and his children in bonds, and sent
them to Rome. He also restored the high priesthood to Hyrcanus, and made him governor of
the nation, but forbade him to wear a diadem. This Hyrcanus ruled, besides his first nine
years, twenty-four years more, when Barzapharnes and Pacorus, the generals of the Parthi-
ans, passed over Euphrates, and fought with Hyrcanus, and took him alive, and made Anti-
gonus, the son of Aristobulus, king; and when he had reigned three years and three months,
Sosius and Herod besieged him, and took him, when Antony had him brought to Antioch,
and slain there. Herod was then made king by the Romans, but did no longer appoint high
priests out of the family of Asamoneus; but made certain men to be so that were of no emi-
nent families, but barely of those that were priests, excepting that he gave that dignity to
Aristobulus; for when he had made this Aristobulus, the grandson of that Hyrcanus who
was then taken by the Parthians, and had taken his sister Mariarmne to wife, he thereby
aimed to win the good-will of the people, who had a kind remembrance of Hyrcanus [his
grandfather]. Yet did he afterward, out of his fear lest they should all bend their inclina-
tions to Aristobulus, put him to death, and that by contriving how to have him suffocated as
he was swimming at Jericho, as we have already related that matter; but after this man he
never intrusted the priesthood to the posterity of the sons of Asamoneus. Archelaus also,
Herod's son, did like his father in the appointment of the high priests, as did the Romans
also, who took the government over the Jews into their hands afterward. Accordingly, the
number of the high priests, from the days of Herod until the day when Titus took the temple
and the City, and burnt them [in 70 CE], were in all twenty-eight; the time also that be-

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