Assumption of Moses

Chapter 6

  1. 1 Then there shall be raised up unto them kings bearing rule, and they shall call themselves priests of
  2. 2 the Most High God: they shall assuredly work iniquity in the holy of holies. And an insolent king shall succeed them, who will not be of the race of the priests, a man bold and shameless, and he shall
  3. 3 judge them as they shall deserve. And he shall cut off their chief men with the sword, and shall
  4. 4 destroy them in secret places, so that no one may know where their bodies are. He shall slay the
  5. 5 old and the young, and he shall not spare. Then the fear of him shall be bitter unto them in their
  6. 6 land. And he shall execute judgements on them as the Egyptians executed upon them, during
  7. 7 thirty and four years, and he shall punish them. And he shall beget children, (who) succeeding him
  8. 8 shall rule for shorter periods. Into their parts cohorts and a powerful king of the west shall come,
  9. 9 who shall conquer them: and he shall take them captive, and burn a part of their temple with fire, (and) shall crucify some around their colony.