 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Kupindira kwekutanga kweRoma mudunhu kunobva muna 63 BCE, zvichitevera kupera kweTatu Mithridatic War, apo Roma yakagadzira dunhu reSiria. Pashure pokukundwa kwaMithridates VI wePonto, Pompey Pompey Mukuru akapamba Jerusarema muna 63 BCE. Mambokadzi wechiHasmonean, Salome Alexandra, akanga achangobva kufa uye vanakomana vake, Hyrcanus II naAristobulus II, vakarwisana muhondo yevagari vomunyika yacho. Muna 63 B.C.E., Aristobulus akakombwa muJerusarema nemauto omunununa wake. Akatuma nhume kuna Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, mumiririri waPompey munharaunda yacho. Aristobulus akapa chiokomuhomwe chakakura kuti aponeswe, icho Pompey akagamuchira nokukurumidza. Pashure pacho, Aristobulus akapomera Scaurus mhosva yokumanikidza. Sezvo Scaurus aiva mukwasha waPompey uye munhu waaidzidzisa, mukuru wacho akapindura nokuita kuti Hyrcanus atarisire umambo somuchinda uye Mupristi Mukuru. 