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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: The World English Bible translates the passage as: But when he heard that Archelaus
Herod I the Great king of Judea: 5.Cleopatra of Jerusalem 6.Pallas 7.Phaidra 8.Elpis: Phasael governor of Jerusalem (1) Antipater heir of Judaea (2) Alexander I prince of Judea (2) Aristobulus IV prince of Judea (3) Herod II Philip prince of Judea (4) Herod Archelaus ethnarch of Judea, Idumea (4) Herod Antipas tetrarch of Galilea & Perea (5 ...
Herod the Great medallion from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum, 16th century. Herod was born around 72 BCE [11] [12] in Idumea, south of Judea.He was the second son of Antipater the Idumaean, a high-ranking official under ethnarch Hyrcanus II, and Cypros, a Nabatean Arab princess from Petra, in present-day Jordan.
Bible references: Gardner, Paul D. (2015) New International Encyclopedia of Bible Characters , Grand Rapids : Zondervan ISBN : 978-0-310-52950-7 . Color palette: materialui.co/colors
Herod the Great is believed to have died in March or April of 4 BC and most estimates place Jesus at some two years of age at this point. Matthew does not describe Herod's gory death, which is vividly related by Josephus. [1] This verse copies much of the wording of Matthew 2:13, and is the realization of the events promised there.
In the soon-to-be-published “The Life of Herod the Great,” Zora Neale Hurston reframes one of the Bible’s greatest villains. Over […] A new novel by Zora Neale Hurston reimagines the ...
The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a story recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. [2]
Acts 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the death of the first apostle, James, son of Zebedee, followed by the miraculous escape of Peter from prison, the death of Herod Agrippa I, and the early ministry of Barnabas and Paul of Tarsus.