Ptolemy (son of Abubus)

Ptolemy was the son of Abubus. He was appointed governor of the Jericho region of Israel by the Seleucid king, Antiochus VII Sidetes, in the second century BCE and married a daughter of Simon Maccabaeus, military commander of the Maccabees and founder of Israel's Hasmonean dynasty. Ptolemy held a banquet for his father-in-law Simon and two of Simon's sons, where he had them all killed. He then attempted to have Simon's third son, John Hyrcanus, killed also, but failed.