Tradition locates this temptation west of Jericho on the cliff of the mountain Jebel Qarantal, where Simon Maccabeus built his fortress named “Dok” and where he and two of his sons were treacherously killed (1 Maccabees 16:15–17). The Hasmoneans began, and Herod the Great continued, to build a series of mountaintop castles beginning from Masada, Hyrkania, Kypros, Dok, and Alexandreion. The fortress of Dok was set on this high point in order to control the area of Jericho and the lower Jordan Valley