John Hyrcanus II (, Yohanan Hurqanos; died 30 BCE), a member of the Hasmonean dynasty, was the High Priest of Israel in the 1st century BCE. He was also briefly king of Judea (67-66 BCE) and then the ethnarch of Judea, probably over the period 47-40 BCE.

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Hyrcanus was the elder of two sons born to Alexander Jannaeus,

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