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SEM
After the defeat of Tizranei, Svria did not all at once
cotne into the possession of the
28. Antiochus The royal house of Syria
ABiaticusl Komans.
was not yet extinct. for Antiochus X.
(69-65 B'C')' Eusebes and Cleopatra Selene had
SENNACHERIB
8ENIR [l'j~; C~N[E]~P ; Senil-; Dt. 39 r Ch. 523
Cant.48 [C~NIEIP. NIEzek.275 [CENEIP. BI). or
sometsmes. incorrectly, ~n AV. SHEKIK (DI., Cant.).
Senir (the Amoiite nnrlrr of hlt. Hermon, Dt. Ic.) is
described in nn insciiotion of Shalmaneser as 'Suniru.
the mountain summit at theentrance to Lebanon' (Del.
Par roq) ; Ezekiel says that the Tyrinns (bur cp TYKE.
?j I) sent thither for planks of fir-trees. In I Ch.hn3
Senir ir coupled with Mount Herman. It might be a
designation of that part of the Hcrmon-range which is
between Bdalbrk and Horns. and was knoxm llr the
In 65 ec. disturbances broke out in Antioch (Diod.
frg. 34). and Philippun son of Philippus I. was
encourneed " to lav claim to the crown. Thus the old
strife between the two rival lines was renewed in the
third generailon. The Arabian chief Azlzus (cp g 22)
supported Philippus, whilst Sampsiceramus, prince of
Emeia (Strsbo, 753). supported Anriochus. Into the
details of the strife we need not enter. Pompeius, who
had
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taken the dace of Luuullus in 66 B.c.. ~. took in hand
the reduction of this chaos to order. Antiochus, on
requesting to be acknowledged as the rightful heir to
the throne. 'received the answer that Pomoeius .
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would
not give back the ravereignty to a king who knew
neither how to mainfain nor how to govern his kingdom,
even at the request of his subjects, much less against
their distinctly expressed wishes. With this letter of
the Roman proconsul thc house of Seleucus \rrs
ejected from the throne which it hod occupied for two
hundred and fifty years. Antiouhua soon after lart his
life through the artifice of the emir Sampnicerumus, as
whose client he played the ruler in Antioch' (Mommren,
Hiit of Rome, 41~1. --, Svria , now became a Rotnntl
province (63 B.c.).
Berider the special articles devoted to Anriochus. Demcrriar,
em., and collateral rrticler, in rhc present work, SchOrec's
/'wish f'~yrii. Extremely valuable are the articles hinder the vrriovl
herding. Antiqhus Drmctriur atc. in Paulr'$ Real Emyrlo.
p*i< "OW %\.%,lablL in pxt in ;he r;"irud ed,rion by wisura;
,r &II be round the fullest collection or =uthoririer, to
which general refcrencc must here suffice. W. J. W.
SEM (CHM [Ti. WHI), Lk.336. RV SEEM
sEM.4cHIAFi (rnpnD, g s,), one of the sons of
Shcmaiah b. Ohed-edom (I Ch.26r, ca~XElb. [R],
camaxla [L], -lac [A]). Cp ISMACHIAH, where a
meaning is suggested. This meaning, however.
seems lo be due to aredactor. The neighbouring
nnrner are surely clm~names of the Negeb (cp OnEDnos).
Cp SlnnEcAI. T. K. C.
SENE1 (CEME[E]I). I. I Ed. 9jj=EzralOs3,
Slililrl (75).
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