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  Herod Archelaus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, the brother of Herod Antipas, and the half-brother of Herod Philip.
Archelaus was deposed in the year 6 and banished to Vienne in Gaul; Judea became a Roman province.
In the Bible, Archelaus is mentioned in the story of the Flight into Egypt of the Gospel of Matthew, and the Parable of the talents in the Gospel of Luke probably refers to his journey to Rome.
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 Herod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herod was the name of several members of the Herodian dynasty of Roman Judea:
Herod Philip (4 BC–AD 34), tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis.
Herod III, brother of Agrippa I and king of Chalcis from 41 to 48.
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 Herod
Herod’s family life was full of tragedies, and was soiled with the blood of his closest relatives, including three of his own sons and one of his ten wives.
Although Herod was a *Hellenist in heart and practice, and surrounded himself by Hellenistic counsellors, he was prudent enough to refrain from suppressing or openly defying the Jewish religion as Antiochus IV had done in the preceding century.
Herod Antipas is mentioned in the NT in connection with the imprisonment and execution of John the Baptist (Mt 14:3–12).
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 The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics
The most common coins of Herod Archelaus (4 BCE - 6 CE) are small prutahs featuring a bunch of grapes and a crested helmet with his name and title spelled out in Greek (#30), and a ship's prow and wreath with his name and title abbreviated.
The rare coins of Herod Antipas (4 BCE - 39 CE) generally feature an upright palm branch surrounded by the Greek inscription "Herod the Tetrarch." The name of the city - Tiberias (named by Antipas after the Roman Emperor Tiberius)- where the coins were minted, is contained within a wreath on the reverse.
The coins of Herod Philip II (4 BCE - 34 CE) are generally of middle bronze size, depicting a portrait of the Roman Emperor on the obverse and the facade of a tetrastyle (four columns) temple on the reverse; they are all dated according to the Emperor's regnal year.
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 King Herod Archelaus
Herod Archelaus was born in 23 BCE as the son of king Herod and his wife Malthace; he was full brother of Herod Antipas and a half brother of Philip.
In his father's testament, Herod Archelaus was appointed king, but the Roman emperor Augustus wrote him that he had to contend himself with the title of ethnarch ('national leader') of Samaria, Judaea and Idumea.
Herod Archelaus ruled so badly that the Jews and Samarians unitedly appealed to Rome to request that he should be deposed.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - ARCHELAUS:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Archelaus thus attained the crown with little difficulty at the early age of eighteen.
Archelaus, professing always profound respect for the popular demand, pointed out that he could not well take any such extreme measures before he had been confirmed by the Roman emperor, Augustus, in his sovereignty: just as soon as this confirmation should be received, he declared himself willing to grant the people's desire.
Archelaus was accordingly appointed ethnarch—not king—of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, with the exception of the important cities of Gaza, Gadara, and Hippus, which latter were joined to the province of Syria.
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 Herod
Herod Antipas, 4 BCE to 40 CE 4 BCE to 40 CE AE 19.
Herod Phillip, 4 BCE to 34 CE Herod Philip, 4 B.C.E.-34 C.E. Meshorer 5, AE 18.
Aristobulus of Chalcis, 57 to 92 CE Son of Herod of Chalcis.
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 Herod Archelaus: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herod i, also known as herod the great was an ancient king of judaea....
Herod philip was son of herod the great and half-brother of herod antipas and herod archelaus....
Herod antipas (born 20 bc) was an ancient leader (tetrarch) of galilee and peraea....
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 Herod's sons-Jerusalem through Coins
Herod Archelaus was given the areas of Judaea, Samaria and Idumaea to rule.
Herod Antipas was given the Galilee to rule with the title "ethnarch." Herod Antipas was the Herod who ordered the execution of John the Baptist after his daughter, Salome, made this request after pleasing Herod with a dance.
Herod Antipas, 4 BCE to 39 CE 4 BCE to 40 CE AE 19.
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 Herod - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
The last days of Herod were embittered by endless court intrigues and conspiracies, by an almost insane suspicion on the part of the aged king, and by increasing indications of the restlessness of the nation.
Herod appears to have been deeply in love with Mariamne, the grandchild of Hyrcanus, in so far as he was capable of such a feeling, but his attitude toward the entire Asmonean family and his fixed determination to make an end of it changed whatever love Mariamne had for him into hatred.
Herod Agrippa II was the son of Herod Agrippa I and Cypros.
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 Herod. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herod married ten times, and the various families in the palace intrigued against each other continually.
Herod Antipas repudiated his wife, daughter of Aretas, to marry his niece Herodias, wife of his half brother Herod Philip, whom she divorced to marry Herod Antipas.
Herod Agrippa I was strongly pro-Jewish, and he built extensively at Berytus (modern Beirut).
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 The Lives of the Herod Family Intertwine with the Life of Jesus and the Lives of His Apostles
Herod Antipater, the father of Herod the Great, is not mentioned in the New Testament, but ten of his descendants played major roles in the lives of Jesus and of the apostles.
Herod was deeply disturbed, because he had earned the title, King of the Jews, from the Romans, and he was planning that one of his sons would inherit the title from him.
Herod the Great ordered the slaughter of all boys under the age of two years, and Joseph took Mary and Jesus to Egypt for safety.
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 Rejection of Pascal's Wager:Historical Background to the Gospels
Herod meant it to be the grandest temple of all, for which he hope to be remembered by his Jewish subject.
Herod Antipas was given the territories of Galilee and Paraea.
Herod Archelaus' rule coincided with a rise in messianic fervor among the Jews and the Samaritans.
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 New Life Wesleyan Church - Paul's Citizenship
Herod Antipas was to rule Galilee and the east bank of the Jordan as a tetrarch; Philip was to be tetrarch of the Golan heights in the north-east; and Archelaus became the ethnarch ('national leader') of Samaria and Judaea.
Together with his half-brothers Philip and Herod Antipas, he was educated at Rome.
When his brother Herod Antipas tried to steal his realm, Caligula intervened: Antipas was exiled to Gaul and his realm, Galilee and Peraea, was given to Agrippa (39 AD).
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 Proof Jesus was Born Near 1 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herod Archelaus was 18 years old in 4 BC, and was the principal heir of his father's kingdom.
Herod Anchelaus was eventually summoned to Rome, deprived of his crown, and banished to Vienne in Gaul.
Archelaus lost the kingdom he'd inherited from his father Herod the Great, and got only a portion of the kingdom afterwards to rule as one of the three tetrarchs or joint rulers of the land.
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 Easton's Bible Dictionary
Herod Archelaus (Mat 2:22), the brother of Antipas (q.v.).
Herod Philip I (Mar 6:17), the son of Herod the Great by Mariamne, the daughter of Simon, the high priest.
Herod Philip II The son of Herod the Great and Cleopatra of Jerusalem.
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 Chapter 13: Part 2 - The Chronology of Josephus
When Herod finally decided that Alexander and Aristobulus should be executed for their supposed crimes against him, he had to have Caesar’s representatives in the province of Syria hear the case.
Herod would have found enough biblical precedents for expunging Antipater’s name from the public records (including his two years of joint rule with Herod when he was also reckoned as a king).
Archelaus was deposed in C.E. 6 and banished to Gaul.
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 Herod Antipas
Herod Antipas: Jewish leader, ruler of Galilee and Peraea between 4 BCE and 39 CE.
Herod Antipas -a nickname derived from Antipatros- was the son of the Jewish king
Herod Antipas' subjects were convinced that the war with Aretas that broke out in 36, and the Arabian successes during this war, were a divine punishment (text).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Herod
Herod was the name of many rulers mentioned in the N.T. and in history.
The death of Herod is important in its relation to the birth of Christ.
He was, like many other Herods, a builder, and, according to Josephus, he so strengthened the walls of Jerusalem that the emperor became alarmed and ordered him "to leave off the building of those walls presently" ("Ant.", XIX, vii, 2).
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 The Immigrant Nazarene
Like Herod, most people knew that if the people were allowed to worship—they would pretty much remain tolerable; their religion was allowed as an opiate but was crushed when it became a cause for justice.
However, Herod the Great was hated by his people and barely tolerated by Rome; his sons were hated even more and tolerated even less for their greed and lacking the political savvy of their father.
Herod Agrippa II (A. Agrippa II was judged to be too young to assume leadership over all the territory of his father, Agrippa I. Thus, Emperor Claudius appointed Cuspius Fadus procurator of Palestine.
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 Roman control of Palestine - History Forum
Herod the Great was the ruler between 34BC and his death in 4BC.
A region close to Syria was given to Phillip, another of Herod the Great's sons (Herod the Great had ten wives that bore him children, half of which he named Herod).
It was Archelaus' ethnarchy that became the province of Judea, which was subordinated to Syria.
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 Blue Letter Bible - Help, Tutorials, and FAQs
There are three members of the family of Herod that figure prominently in the life of Christ – Herod the Great, Herod Archelaus, and Herod Antipas.
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi (Matthew 2:16).
The superstitious Herod thought Jesus was John the Baptist raised from the dead.
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 Crosswalk.com - Creed: Herod Antipas, Meet Jesus
Herod the Great: At the beginning of the gospels was Herod the Great, who—so madly afraid of the Magi’s news of a new king’s birth—had all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity, who were two years of age and under, killed.
Herod Archelaus: This is the Herod whom Joseph avoided when bringing his wife and young son back from their time of exile in Egypt.
Herod Antipas, though an evil man and vicious ruler, was much fascinated with the man who many were calling the Messiah.
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 Biblical people: Herod Archelaus
Herod Archelaus was a son of King Herod the Great, a brother to Herod Antipas, and half-brother to Herod Philip.
He showed his incredible capacity for cruelty by slaying nearly 3,000 Pharisees in retaliation for a sedition that began when a Roman golden eagle emblem was removed and destroyed from the campus of the holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Matthew mentions Archelaus in Matthew 2:22 in connection with Joseph, Mary and Jesus returning from their exile in Egypt.
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 Chapter 13: The Chronology of Josephus
He said that Herod had a reign of 37 years from the time he was proclaimed king by the Romans and 34 years from the death of Antigonus which occurred after Herod captured Jerusalem.
The fact that these two sons of Herod (Archelaus and Antipas) seem to be reigning in 4 B.C. is the main problem to the thesis of Filmer.
Herod sent a part of his army to Arabia to put an end to the activities of robbers who were hiding in the area and to collect a major debt that was owed him by the Arabian ruler.
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 Crosswalk.com - Creed: Jesus Turns Enemies, Pilate & Herod, Into Friends
Herod Philip, son of Cleopatra of Jerusalem was the first Jewish tetrarch to put his “mug” on a coin.
Herod Philip, son of Mariamne, was a private citizen, excluded from all share of his father’s inheritance, though his story is very important to the understanding of Jesus’ relationship to the “Herods” of His day.
Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for John had been saying to him: "It is not lawful for you to have her." Herod wanted to kill John, but he was afraid of the people, because they considered him a prophet.
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 Easton's Bible Dictionary: Heresy to Hobah
Herod Agrippa I. Son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and grandson of Herod the Great.
The son of Herod Agrippa I. and Cypros.
After a troubled reign of thirty-seven years, he died at Jericho amid great agonies both of body and mind, B.C. 4, i.e., according to the common chronology, in the year in which Jesus was born.
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 Places in Bible Times - Palestinian Rulers:
Coins of various Herods mentioned in the Bible: Herod the Great, Herod Archelaus, Herod Antipas, Herod Agippa I & II.
Coin of Herod Agrippa I. Left: three ears of corn from on stalk.
Herod Antipas, Bronze Coin of, ´Herod the Tetrarch´, ´To Gaius Caesar Germanicus´, AD 43.
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 Please title this page. (Page 2)
For the Herod in question was the son of an Idumean, of the wealthy and influential Antipater or Antipas.
It was Herod II who later on beheaded John the Baptist and mocked the Saviour.
However, the son of Agrippa 1 - Herod Agrippa II - obtained and retained until after the destruction of Jerusalem the title of king of the northeastern parts of the country and the custody of the Temple; it was to him that St. Paul gave at Caesarea an account of his life (Acts 26).
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Archelaus ruled as Ethnarch ("Ruler of the Nation") over Judaea, Idumaea (the original homeland of his family), and Samaria from 4 BC to 6 AD.
Verse 16 says that Herod "sent forth, and slew all the children (pais, son, young men) that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under".
"The evidence that Herod died in 4 BC is strong, and the accounts in Josephus of the reigns of his three sons, Archelaus, Antipas and Philip, all correlate perfectly with a 4 BC date." Some have a problem understanding Luke 2:1-5.
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