and his son
Alexander succeeded him in the kingdom; who, passing over the
Hellespont, overcame the generals of Darius's army in a battle fought
at Granicum. So he marched over Lydia, and subdued Ionia, and overran
Caria, and fell upon the places of Pamphylia, as has been related
elsewhere.

2. But the elders of Jerusalem being very uneasy that the brother of
Jaddua the high priest, though married to a foreigner, should be a
partner with him in the high priesthood, quarreled with him; for they
esteemed this man's marriage a step to such as should be desirous of
transgressing about the marriage of [strange] wives, and that this
would be the beginning of a mutual society with foreigners, although
the offense of some about marriages, and their having married wives
that were not of their own country, had been an occasion of their former
captivity, and of the miseries they then underwent; so they commanded
Manasseh to divorce his wife, or not to approach the altar, the high
priest himself joining with the people in their indignation against his
brother, and driving him away from the altar. Whereupon Manasseh came to
his father-in-law, Sanballat, and told him, that although he loved his
daughter Nicaso, yet was he not willing to be deprived of his sacerdotal
dignity on her account, which was the principal dignity in their nation,
and always continued in the same family. And then Sanballat promised him
not only to preserve to him the honor of his priesthood, but to procure
for him the power and dignity of a high priest, and would make him
governor of all the places he himself now ruled, if he would keep his
daughter for his wife. He also told him further, that he would build
him a temple like that at Jerusalem, upon Mount Gerizzini, which is the
highest of all the mountains that are in Samaria; and he promised that
he would do this with the approbation of Darius the king. Manasseh was
elevated with these promises, and staid with Sanballat, upon a supposal
that he should gain a high priesthood, as bestowed on him by Darius, for
it happened that Sanballat was then in years. But there was now a great
disturbance among the people of Jerusalem, because many of those priests
and Levites were entangled in such matches; for they all revolted to
Manasseh, and Sanballat afforded them money, and divided among them land
for tillage, and habitations also, and all this in order every way to
gratify his son-in-law.

3. About this time it w