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  1. Pompey chose the vulnerable
  2. northern approach, despite the
  3. protective trench that had been
  4. dug there. In 63 BCE, after a
  5. three-month siege, the Roman
  6. soldiers breached the walls. In
  7. an act which shocked the de-
  8. feated Jewish army, Pompey
  9. entered the Temple's innermost
  10. chamber, the Holy of Holies.
  11. The government was left in the
  12. hands of the puppet Hyracanus
  13. and his advisor, Antipater.
  14.