29:1
Hyrcanus expands power against neighboring territories and fortresses.
29:2
Shomron is besieged and eventually destroyed after a long resistance.
29:3
Idumean territories are brought under rule and their inhabitants are compelled into circumcision and Yehudi law in the chronicle’s account.
29:4
The expansion transforms the Hasmonean state from revolt-survivor into regional kingdom and introduces new tensions between conquest and covenant.