took away the high priesthood from him, and put Eleazar his brother in
his place. He also magnificently rebuilt the royal palace that had been
at Jericho, and he diverted half the water with which the village of
Neara used to be watered, and drew off that water into the plain, to
water those palm trees which he had there planted: he also built
a village, and put his own name upon it, and called it Archelais.
Moreover, he transgressed the law of our fathers [23] and married
Glaphyra, the daughter of Archelaus, who had been the wife of his
brother Alexander, which Alexander had three children by her, while it
was a thing detestable among the Jews to marry the brother's wife. Nor
did this Eleazar abide long in the high priesthood, Jesus, the son of
Sie, being put in his room while he was still living.

2. But in the tenth year of Archelaus's government, both his brethren,
and the principal men of Judea and Samaria, not being able to bear his
barbarous and tyrannical usage of them, accused him before Caesar, and
that especially because they knew he had broken the commands of
Caesar, which obliged him to behave himself with moderation among them.
Whereupon Caesar, when he heard it, was very angry, and called for
Archelaus's steward, who took care of his affairs at Rome, and whose
name was Archelaus also; and thinking it beneath him to write to
Archelaus, he bid him sail away as soon as possible, and bring him to
us: so the man made haste in his voyage, and when he came into Judea,
he found Archelaus feasting with his friends; so he told him what Caesar
had sent him about, and hastened him away. And when he was come [to
Rome], Caesar, upon hearing what certain accusers of his had to say,
and what reply he could make, both banished him, and appointed Vienna, a
city of Gaul, to be the place of his habitation, and took his money away
from him.

3. Now, before Archelaus was gone up to Rome upon this message, he
related this dream to his friends: That he saw ears of corn, in number
ten, full of wheat, perfectly ripe, which ears, as it seemed to him,
were devoured by oxen. And when he was awake and gotten up, because
the vision appeared to beof great importance to him, he sent for the
diviners, whose study was employed about dreams. And while some were of
one opinion, and some of another, [for all their interpretations did not
agree,] Simon, a man of the sect of the Essens, desired leave to speak
his mind freely, and said that th