This article is the Jerusalem timeline It s not about Hasmoneans Herod Romans Parthians and it isn t even a detailed history of Jerusalem All these details do not belong here Antipater and Phasael are not very important nor are the details of the Roman campaign against the Parthians These belong in dedicated articles This should suffice I ve bolded my additions 40 BCE Antigonus son of Hasmonean Aristobulus II and nephew of Hyrcanus II offers money to the Parthian army to help him recapture the Hasmonean realm from the Romans Jerusalem is captured by Barzapharnes and Pacorus I of Parthia Antigonus is placed as king of Judea 40 37 BCE The Roman senate appoints Herod son of Antipater the Idumaean King of the Jews and provides him with an army Herod and Gaius Sosius wrest Judea from Antigonus II Mattathias culminating in the Siege of Jerusalem 37 BC