JOSEPH AND AZARIAH BEN ZECHARIAH
- JOSEPH AND AZARIAH BEN ZECHARIAH
- JOSEPH AND AZARIAH BEN ZECHARIAH, two commanders in the army
of Judah Maccabee. When, in 165 B.C.E., Judah and his
brother Jonathan went to the help of the Jews in Gilead and Galilee who
were being oppressed by the gentiles, Joseph and Azariah were entrusted
with the defense of the people and strictly forbidden to engage in
active hostilities while Judah was absent from Judea. When the news
arrived of the victories of Judah and Jonathan, Joseph and Azariah
decided on their own initiative to march against Jabneh. The Syrian
general Gorgias counter-attacked. The Jewish army was routed and pursued
to the borders of Judea, 2,000 Jews falling in the campaign. The author
of I Maccabees (5:56–62) explains this defeat by saying that Joseph and
Azariah were not of the stock that had been entrusted with the salvation
of Israel.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Schuerer, Hist, 35; Klausner, Bayit Sheni, 3 (19502), 34.
(Edna Elazary)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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