:This is section that was removed. It was restored without discussion and is still tagged for citation. It simply doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article on Pompey.    

  
 Pompey entered the Holy of Holies. He went to the Temple to find out whether the Jews had no physical statue or image of their God in their most sacred place of worship. To Pompey, it was inconceivable to worship a God without portraying him in a type of likeness, like a statue. What Pompey saw was unlike anything he had seen on his travels to sacred sites. He found no statue, religious image or pictorial description of the Hebrew God. Instead, he saw Torah scrolls and was thoroughly confused.