Now he was free to deal with intransigent Jerusalem. Alexander was very angry, and threatened that as soon as he had taken Tyre he would march against the Jewish high priest.Īfter a difficult siege of Tyre lasting almost a year, Alexander turned his attention to the strategically significant coastal city of Gaza, which he defeated after a relatively short siege. The high priest answered that he had promised Darius not to bear arms against him, and he would keep his oath as long as Darius lived.
From here he sent a letter to the high priest of the Jews, asking him for supplies, and requesting that he transfer his allegiance and tribute from Darius to Alexander. After conquering Persia, Alexander marched into Syria, taking Damascus and Sidon and then besieged Tyre. The following account is taken from the Josephus. The two-horned ram that you saw stands for the kings of Media and Persia. The hairy male goat stands for the king of Greece and the great horn that was between its eyes stands for the first king. The prophet was told the identities of the beasts: It threw the ram to the ground and trampled it down, and there was no one to rescue it from its power. It struck down the ram and broke its two horns, and the ram was powerless to stand up to it. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between its eyes. It was coming toward the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing before the watercourse it was running toward it in a powerful rage. I saw it closing in on the ram, and it was filled with bitterness toward it. Immediately after seeing the ram, the prophet sees another fearsome beast, a hairy he-goat closing in on the ram with two horns:Īs I kept watching, look! there was a male goat coming from the west crossing the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground. The prophet Daniel had predicted in the third year of King Belshazzar’s reign (about 551 BC), the rise of Greece and its conquest of the Medo-Persian Empire:Īs I raised my eyes, look! there was a ram standing before the watercourse, and it had two horns. The two horns were tall, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up later. Although a Jew, he was employed by the Romans to write Jewish history, which he did with two important volumes The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus (37- 100 AD) was by far the most important writer illuminating the whole biblical era.
Jaddus was the High Priest in Jerusalem at the time of Alexander’s military successes.įlavius Josephus. Daniel was one of the Bible’s major prophets who prophesied future world events. With his home front secured, Alexander began a campaign of conquest of the Persian Empire in 334 BC.ĭaniel. Alexander consolidated his power by murdering a number of rivals and putting down military insurrections from Greek city-states. Immediately after inheriting his father Philip’s throne at the age of 20, in 336 BC. There are four main players in this true story which took place between the Old and New Testaments:Īlexander the Great.
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