Roman general Pompey maneuvers for conquest of Judea.
He enters Judea with his forces and, allied for the moment with Hyrcanus II (of the Maccabeean dynasty), captures Jerusalem from Aristobulus (also of the Maccabeean Dynasty).
The internecine Jewish fighting between Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus had given General Pompey the opening to capture Jerusalem with minimal cost. The fighting was an offshoot of total Hasmonean squandering of the political capital bequeathed to them by Matisyahu and his son, Judah the Maccabee.
General Pompey first appoints (the weak) Hyrcanus II as a puppet–government symbol via the high priesthood, and dispatches Aristobulus, nemesis of Hyrcanus II and pretender to the Jewish throne, back to Rome in chains.
Meanwhile, the puppet Hyrcanus II not only has Pompey on his case, but the old intriguer Antipater. Twenty–three years later, in 40 BCE, Emperor Mark Antony will strip Hyrcanus II of all titles, and then bestow the kingship on Herod.