[Sidenote:  Joel 2:28, 29]
And it shall come to pass afterwards,
That I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh,
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions,
And even upon thy male and female slaves,
In those days I will pour out my spirit.

[Sidenote:  (Jos.  Ant.  XI, 7:1)] When Eliashib the high priest was dead, his son Judas succeeded him in the high priesthood.  Then, when he was dead, his son Johanan assumed that dignity.  It was on his account that Bagoses, the general of Artaxerxes [Mnemon], desecrated the temple and imposed tribute on the Jews, that at public expense they should pay for every lamb fifty shekels.  The reason for this was as follows:  Jeshua was the brother of Johanan.  Bagoses, who was Jeshua’s friend, promised to secure for him the high priesthood.  Trusting, therefore, in this support, Jeshua quarrelled with Johanan in The temple and so provoked his brother that, in his anger, Johanan slew him.  On this account the people were enslaved and the temple desecrated by the Persians.  For when Bagoses, the general of Artaxerxes, knew that Johanan, the high priest of the Jews had slain his own brother Jeshua in the temple, he immediately came against the Jews and began in anger to say to them, Have you dared commit a murder in your temple!  And when he attempted to go into the temple they tried to prevent him doing so; but he said to them, Am I not purer than he who was slain in the temple?  And when he had said these words, he went into the temple.  Thus Bagoses made use of this pretext and punished the Jews seven years for the murder of Jeshua.

[Sidenote:  (Jos.  Ant.  XI, 7:2)] Now when Johanan had departed this life, his son Jaddua succeeded to the high priesthood.  He had a brother whose name was Manasseh.  And there was a certain Sanballat who was sent to Samaria by Darius, the last king of Persia.  This man, knowing that Jerusalem was a famous city and that its kings had given great trouble to the Assyrians and the people of Coele-Syria, willingly gave his daughter, whose name was Nicaso, in marriage to Manasseh, thinking that this marriage alliance would be a pledge that the nation of the Jews would continue their good will toward him.

[Sidenote:  (Jos.  Ant.  XI, 8:2a-c)] The elders of Jerusalem, complaining loudly that the brother of Jaddua, the high priest, though married to a foreigner, was sharing with him the high priesthood, took sides against Jaddua; for they regarded this man’s marriage as an encouragement to those who were eager to transgress by marrying foreign wives and that this would be the beginning of a closer association with foreigners.  Therefore they commanded Manasseh to divorce his wife or else not to approach the altar.  The high priest himself joined with the people in their indignation and drove his brother from the altar.