The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Tetradrachm of Mithridates the Great. (B. C. 123 to 63 ) It was while the Romans were engaged in their great contest with Mithridates,father-in-law of Tigranes, King of Armenia, that the latter held possession ofSyria; but, four years after the defeat of Mithridates by Lucullus (B. C. 69), Syriawas made a Roman province by Pompey (see page 601).. Arsaces Orodes I., King of Parthia. (B. C. 55 to 37).The Parthians, B. C. 40, overran Syria and took Jerusalem, placing Antigonus,son of Aristobulus II., on the throne. Herod I.,
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Tetradrachm of Mithridates the Great. (B. C. 123 to 63 ) It was while the Romans were engaged in their great contest with Mithridates,father-in-law of Tigranes, King of Armenia, that the latter held possession ofSyria; but, four years after the defeat of Mithridates by Lucullus (B. C. 69), Syriawas made a Roman province by Pompey (see page 601).. Arsaces Orodes I., King of Parthia. (B. C. 55 to 37).The Parthians, B. C. 40, overran Syria and took Jerusalem, placing Antigonus,son of Aristobulus II., on the throne. Herod I., the Great, was obliged to fly toRome; but in A. D. 37 returned, and, with the aid of the Romans under Sosius,recaptured Jerusalem, and was proclaimed King of Judtea (see pages 602, 605).
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