he said to him, that he delivered up to him these men,
who came out of places under his dominion, and did gladly accept of
him for his lord instead of Darius. So when Alexander had received him
kindly, Sanballat thereupon took courage, and spake to him about his
present affair. He told him that he had a son-in-law, Manasseh, who was
brother to the high priest Jaddua; and that there were many others of
his own nation, now with him, that were desirous to have a temple in the
places subject to him; that it would be for the king's advantage to have
the strength of the Jews divided into two parts, lest when the nation
is of one mind, and united, upon any attempt for innovation, it prove
troublesome to kings, as it had formerly proved to the kings of Assyria.
Whereupon Alexander gave Sanballat leave so to do, who used the utmost
diligence, and built the temple, and made Manasseh the priest, and
deemed it a great reward that his daughter's children should have that
dignity; but when the seven months of the siege of Tyre were over, and
the two months of the siege of Gaza, Sanballat died. Now Alexander, when
he had taken Gaza, made haste to go up to Jerusalem; and Jaddua the high
priest, when he heard that, was in an agony, and under terror, as
not knowing how he should meet the Macedonians, since the king was
displeased at his foregoing disobedience. He therefore ordained that the
people should make supplications, and should join with him in offering
sacrifice to God, whom he besought to protect that nation, and to
deliver them from the perils that were coming upon them; whereupon
God warned him in a dream, which came upon him after he had offered
sacrifice, that he should take courage, and adorn the city, and open the
gates; that the rest should appear in white garments, but that he and
the priests should meet the king in the habits proper to their order,
without the dread of any ill consequences, which the providence of
God would prevent. Upon which, when he rose from his sleep, he greatly
rejoiced, and declared to all the warning he had received from God.
According to which dream he acted entirely, and so waited for the coming
of the king.

5. And when he understood that he was not far from the city, he went out
in procession, with the priests and the multitude of the citizens. The
procession was venerable, and the manner of it different from that
of other nations. It reached to a place called Sapha, which name,
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