These ended in the interference of Rome; and in 63 B. C. Pompey took
Jerusalem, after a siege of three months, and entered the “Holy of
holies” in the Temple, with a profanation before unheard of in Jewish
history. From this time the Jewish state was virtually subject to Rome,
and became, in the end, a part of the Roman province of Syria.
The turbulence of the Jews under Roman rule is well known, and a general
rebellion ended, after fearful bloodshed and misery, in the capture and
destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, A. D. 70. The history, as a separate
political body, of the Hebrews thus ends with the dispersion of their
remnant over the face of the civilized world.