xander commanded to be crucified. But now
Herod, king of Chalcis, removed Joseph, the son of Camydus, from the
high priesthood, and made Ananias, the son of Nebedeu, his successor.
And now it was that Cumanus came as successor to Tiberius Alexander; as
also that Herod, brother of Agrippa the great king, departed this life,
in the eighth year of the reign of Claudius Caesar. He left behind
him three sons; Aristobulus, whom he had by his first wife, with
Bernicianus, and Hyrcanus, both whom he had by Bernice his brother's
daughter. But Claudius Caesar bestowed his dominions on Agrippa, junior.

3. Now while the Jewish affairs were under the administration of
Cureanus, there happened a great tumult at the city of Jerusalem,
and many of the Jews perished therein. But I shall first explain the
occasion whence it was derived. When that feast which is called the
passover was at hand, at which time our custom is to use unleavened
bread, and a great multitude was gathered together from all parts to
that feast, Cumanus was afraid lest some attempt of innovation should
then be made by them; so he ordered that one regiment of the army should
take their arms, and stand in the temple cloisters, to repress any
attempts of innovation, if perchance any such should begin; and this was
no more than what the former procurators of Judea did at such festivals.
But on the fourth day of the feast, a certain soldier let down his
breeches, and exposed his privy members to the multitude, which put
those that saw him into a furious rage, and made them cry out that this
impious action was not done to approach them, but God himself; nay, some
of them reproached Cumanus, and pretended that the soldier was set on
by him, which, when Cumanus heard, he was also himself not a little
provoked at such reproaches laid upon him; yet did he exhort them to
leave off such seditious attempts, and not to raise a tumult at the
festival. But when he could not induce them to be quiet for they still
went on in their reproaches to him, he gave order that the whole
army should take their entire armor, and come to Antonia, which was a
fortress, as we have said already, which overlooked the temple; but when
the multitude saw the soldiers there, they were affrighted at them, and
ran away hastily; but as the passages out were but narrow, and as they
thought their enemies followed them, they were crowded together in
their flight, and a great number were pressed to death in t