SMODEUS
ASMODEUS (Ashmedai ), an "evil spirit" or "evil demon." In the talmudic aggadah, Asmodeus is described as "king of the demons" (Pes. 110a). According to Rapoport, the concept of such a personage originated in Babylonian myth, though the name is Hebrew, derived from the root שמד, "to destroy." It is more likely, however, that the name derives from the Persian aesma daeva or aesmadiv, i.e., "the spirit of anger" which accompanies the god of evil.
Asmodeus first appears in the apocryphal book of Tobit (3:8, 17), which describes how in a fit of jealousy he slew the successive husbands of a young girl. He is again depicted as a malefactor – and in particular as the sower of discord between husband and wife – in the Testament of Solomon (first century c.e.). Throughout the later aggadah, however, Asmodeus is a gay creature, inclined at worst to drunkenness, mischief, and…
The TRUE location of Yerushaliym (Jerusalem) according to the books of 4Ezra and Maccabees is Qumran. NOT in the current day Israel. Qumran is also the location where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the exact place they were written to be left behind in the books of Ezra and Maccabees.