government of the Lesser Armenia. Caesar also bestowed on
Agrippa a certain part of Galilee, Tiberias, and Tarichae, [18] and
ordered them to submit to his jurisdiction. He gave him also Julias, a
city of Perea, with fourteen villages that lay about it.

5. Now as for the affairs of the Jews, they grew worse and worse
continually, for the country was again filled with robbers and
impostors, who deluded the multitude. Yet did Felix catch and put to
death many of those impostors every day, together with the robbers.
He also caught Eleazar, the son of Dineas, who had gotten together
a company of robbers; and this he did by treachery; for he gave him
assurance that he should suffer no harm, and thereby persuaded him to
come to him; but when he came, he bound him, and sent him to Rome.
Felix also bore an ill-will to Jonathan, the high priest, because he
frequently gave him admonitions about governing the Jewish affairs
better than he did, lest he should himself have complaints made of him
by the multitude, since he it was who had desired Caesar to send him as
procurator of Judea. So Felix contrived a method whereby he might get
rid of him, now he was become so continually troublesome to him; for
such continual admonitions are grievous to those who are disposed to
act unjustly. Wherefore Felix persuaded one of Jonathan's most faithful
friends, a citizen of Jerusalem, whose name was Doras, to bring
the robbers upon Jonathan, in order to kill him; and this he did by
promising to give him a great deal of money for so doing. Doras complied
with the proposal, and contrived matters so, that the robbers might
murder him after the following manner: Certain of those robbers went
up to the city, as if they were going to worship God, while they had
daggers under their garments, and by thus mingling themselves among the
multitude they slew Jonathan [19] and as this murder was never avenged,
the robbers went up with the greatest security at the festivals after
this time; and having weapons concealed in like manner as before, and
mingling themselves among the multitude, they slew certain of their own
enemies, and were subservient to other men for money; and slew others,
not only in remote parts of the city, but in the temple itself also;
for they had the boldness to murder men there, without thinking of the
impiety of which they were guilty. And this seems to me to have been the
reason why God, out of his hatred of these men's wickedness, r