c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.146

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.146

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.146

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

1461. Now Herod’s ambassadors made haste to Rome; but sent, as instructed beforehand, what answers they were to make to the questions put to them. They also carried the epistles with them. But Herod now fell into a distemper, and made his will, and bequeathed his kingdom to [Antipas], his youngest son; and this out of that hatred to Archelaus and Philip, which the calumnies of Antipater had raised against them. He also bequeathed a thousand talents to Caesar, and five hundred to Julia, Caesar’s wife, to Caesar’s children, and friends and freed-men.