A wicked king will arise whose name is Armilos: bald, wot small eyes and a leprous forehead; his right ear closed up and his left ear open. If a good person should speak to him, he will turn his closed ear toward him, and if a wicked person should speak to him, he will turn his open ear to him. He is the offspring of Satan and a stone (statue), and he will come up to Jerusalem and incite war with the Messiah of the lineage of Ephraim.at the eastern gate, as scripture states: “and and they shall look to Me about the one whom they pierced” (Zech 12:10). Israel will go into exile into the uncleared wilderness to forage among the salt-plants and broom-sage roots for forty-five days, and then they will be tested and refined, as scripture says: “I shall bring a third (of them) through the fire, etc.” (Zech 13:9). The Messiah of the lineage of Ephraim shall die there, and Israel shall mourn for him. After this the Holy One blessed He will reveal to them the Messiah of the lineage of David, but Israel will wish to stone him, and they will say to him: “You speak a lie, for the Messiah has already been slain, and there is no other Messiah destined to arise.” They will scorn him, as scripture says: “despised and abandoned (by) men” (Isa 53:3). He shall withdraw and be hidden from them, as scripture continues: “like one hiding faces from us” (ibid.). But in Israel’s great distress, they will turn and cry out from (their) hunger and thirst, and the Holy One, blessed be He, will be revealed to them in His glory, as scripture promises: “together all flesh will see” (Isa 40:5). And the King Messiah will sprout up there, as scripture says: “and behold with the clouds of heaven etc.” (Dan 7:13), and it is written after it “and authority was given to him” (Dan 7;14). He shall blow (his breath) at that wicked Armilos and kill him, as scripture forecasts: “he will slay the wicked one with the breath of his lips” (Isa 11:4).