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  Herod: Christian Resource Centre (Bermuda)!
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).
www.nisbett.com /people/bp-herod.htm   (3465 words)

  
 Herod the Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jesus was born in the reign of Herod, whose fury at the news of his birth led to the flight to Egypt.
Herod the Great, who, as another has said, stole to his throne like a fox, ruled like a tiger, and died like a dog, had seized Jerusalem with a Roman army in 37 BC in a victory so murderous that he himself had asked the Romans whether they purposed making him king of a desert.
Herod was not only an Idumaean in race and a Jew in religion, but he was a heathen in practice and a monster in character, exceedingly crafty, jealous, cruel, and revengeful, a true despot.
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 Philip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal (1526–1598).
Philip IV of Spain and III of Portugal (1605–1665).
Philip (died 318 BC), Greek satrap of Sogdiana and governor of Parthia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip   (391 words)

  
 Herod Philip - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Herod Philip (4 BC–34 AD) was son of Herod the Great and half-brother of Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus.
Philip inherited the northeast part of his father's kingdom and is mentioned briefly in the Bible by Luke (3,1): Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis.
Herod Philip, 4 BC births, 34 deaths and Herodian dynasty.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Herod_Philip   (164 words)

  
 Herod - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Herod left three sons and successors alive: Archelaus, to whom he bequeathed his overall kingdom, Herod Antipas, who became Tetrarch of Galilee; and Herod Philip, Tetrarch of sundry other lands.
Herod Philip does not come further into the Bible, except that Herod Antipas later married Philip's wife, prompting John the Baptist to protest that this was unlawful, which landed John in prison.
creationwiki.org /Herod   (1452 words)

  
 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 increased the physical splendor of Jerusalem and erected the Temple, which was the center of Jewish worship in the time of Christ.
Herod drove out the Parthians, protected Jerusalem from pillage, sent Antigonus to Antony for execution, killed all the Jewish leaders who had supported the puppet government, and entered into one of the most colorful reigns in history, from 37 to 4 B.C. Herod possessed intellect without morals, ability without scruple, and courage without honor.
Herod Agrippa was the friend of Caligula, as Herod the Great had been the friend of Augustus; and when Tiberius died, he received the grant of an inde-pendent principality in the north of Palestine.
www.realtime.net /~wdoud/documents/TOPICS_DOC/herod.doc   (1826 words)

  
 Domestic Problems
Salome and Pheroras (brother of Herod and Salome) reported to Herod that his life was in danger because the two sons were not going to leave the murder of their mother unavenged and that Archelaus, king of Cappadocia (father of Glaphyra), would help them to reach the emperor and bring charges against their father.
Herod sent him to Rome and designated in his will that Antipater was his successor to the throne and in the event that Antipater's death might occur before his own, Herod (Philip), son of Mariamne II, the high priest's daughter, was named as his successor.
Herod again changed his mind and nominated Archelaus, the older son of Malthace, as king and his brothers Antipas as tetrarch of Galilee and Perea and Philip as tetrarch of Gaulanitis, Trachonitis, Batanea, and Paneas.
www.bible-history.com /herod_the_great/HERODDomestic_Problems.htm   (1778 words)

  
 The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics
And the third son, Herod Philip, was given predominantly non-Jewish settlements in Syria.
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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 Herod. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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).
www.bartleby.com /65/he/Herod.html   (594 words)

  
 King Philip
Philip: Jewish leader, ruled between 4 BCE and 34 CE in the southwest of what is now Syria.
Philip was the son of the Jewish king Herod the Great and his wife Cleopatra of Jerusalem.
Philip was to continue this policy in the western half of his realm, strengthening the villages Paneas -at the sources of the Jordan- and Bethsaida, calling them Caesarea and Julias in honor of the emperor and his daughter Julia.
www.livius.org /he-hg/herodians/philip.htm   (452 words)

  
 Easton's Bible Dictionary: Herod
Herod's son by Malthace (Matthew 14:1; Luke 3:1, 19; 9:7; Acts 13:1).
Herod Philip I. Mark 6:17), the son of Herod the Great by Mariamne, the daughter of Simon, the high priest.
He is distinguished from another Philip called "the tetrarch." He lived at Rome as a private person with his wife Herodias and his daughter Salome.
eastonsbibledictionary.com /h/herod.htm   (718 words)

  
 In Herod's Footsteps
Herod Philip received the territory north and east of the Sea of Galilee.
Herod Antipas' greatest project was the city of Tiberias on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Ironically, her grandson, Herod Agrippa I, continued the Herod dynasty: He governed territory formerly belonging to Philip (the area north and east of the Sea of Galilee) from AD 37?41 and was king of Judea from AD 41?44.
www.followtherabbi.com /Brix?pageID=3553   (2520 words)

  
 Herod Archelaus
Herod Archelaus was born in 23 B.C. He was born the son of King Herod the Great and his wife Malthace.
Herod Archelaus was the full brother of Herod Antipas and a half brother of Herod Philip.
Herod Archelaus was so horrible that Rome had to eliminate him from his place as the ethnarch.
members.tripod.com /tmgardengal/herod_archelaus.htm   (268 words)

  
 Easton's Bible Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
While residing at Rome with her husband Herod Philip I. and her daughter, Herod Antipas fell in with her during one of his journeys to that city.
www.sacred-texts.com /bib/ebd/ebd176.htm   (770 words)

  
 In Herod's Footsteps
Herod Philip received the territory north and east of the Sea of Galilee.
Herod Antipas' greatest project was the city of Tiberias on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Ironically, her grandson, Herod Agrippa I, continued the Herod dynasty: He governed territory formerly belonging to Philip (the area north and east of the Sea of Galilee) from AD 37?41 and was king of Judea from AD 41?44.
community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=3553   (2520 words)

  
 The Horrors of Herod   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Herod the Great (74-4 B.C.), the son of an Idumean (Edomite) father and Arabian mother, became king of Judea in 37 B.C. through the favor of Rome.
On his deathbed, Herod ordered that all the important men of Judea be summoned to Jericho and imprisoned, to be slain there when he died, so there would be mourning at the time of his death.
Herod is most famous for ordering the massacre of all male children two years old or younger in the town and region of Bethlehem, for fear that a prophesied king of the Jews had been born there.
hobrad.com /horrors.htm   (247 words)

  
 Herod the Great Summary
Herod the Great (73 BC-4 BC), King of Judea, was an example of a class of client princes who kept their thrones by balancing between being overthrown by their own peoples for too much subservience to Rome and being dismissed by the Romans for too much independence.
Herod's father, Antipater, took a prominent part in a civil war between two further Hasmoneans, Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II and his descendants, and became one of Hyrcanus's chief ministers; he also established close relations with the Romans.
Herod turned to the problem of the high priesthood; he himself had not the blood to claim the office, and he needed a priest who could not rival him in dignity.
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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.
www.sundayschoollessons.com /herod.htm   (832 words)

  
 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
Flavius Josephus writes that 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).
www.livius.org /he-hg/herodians/herod_antipas.html   (482 words)

  
 Palestine under the Rule of the Herods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Herod the Great died about 4 BC by our calendar, even though Matthew 2:19 tells us that Herod died after the birth of Jesus.
In the New Testament, all of these rulers are generally referred to as Herod, although the one most mentioned in the Gospels was Herod Antipas since he controlled Galilee and Perea during most of the lifetime of Jesus.
Herod Agrippa I was the grandson of Herod the Great who assumed control of the territory of Philip in 37.
www.cresourcei.org /herodrule.html   (566 words)

  
 Herod's sons-Jerusalem through Coins
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.
Herod Phillip ruled the northeastern section of his father's kingdom and had the smallest area which was centered in Caesarera.
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 Philip the Tetrarch
Like the territory assigned his half-brother Antipas, Philip's domain comprised about a quarter of the area of Herod's kingdom and was the least heavily Judaized.
Paneas, an ancient spa and pagan shrine at the source of the Jordan river, became Philip's imperial capital [Caesarea Philippi], while the fishing port of Bethsaida on the northeast shore of Lake Gennesaret was enlarged and renamed Julias to honor the wife of Augustus [Livia, who styled herself Julia Augusta].
Secondary literature, such as Easton's Bible Dictionary, has often referred to him as "Herod Philip" although there is absolutely no evidence in primary sources that he mimicked his half-brother Antipas in claiming his father's name or was addressed as Herod by contemporaries.
virtualreligion.net /iho/philip.html   (416 words)

  
 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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 Caesarea Maritima in Israel | Cornelius | Herod Agrippa | Philip
Herod Agrippa was smitten by an angel of the Lord at Caesarea (Acts 12:21-23) and the apostle Paul visited the city on many occasions (Acts 9:30; 23:23-35).
"Herod spared nothing in his elaborate designs for the port facilities -- a major engineering feat at the time -- as well as for the city, which included palaces, temples, a theater, a marketplace, a hippodrome, and water and sewage systems.
Maritime trade was extensive: large warehouses facing the harbor contained amphorae of garum (a sauce made of decaying herrings seasoned with spices, which was much liked by the Romans), wine, olive oil, fruit syrups, and nails.
www.padfield.com /1996/caesmari.html   (1412 words)

  
 SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - HEROD THE GREAT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To many people, Herod is best known for his alleged role in the events known as the Massacre of the Innocents, an account of which is given in chapter 2 of the Gospel according to Matthew.
Herod is reconciled with Augustus, which also gives him the permission to proceed legally against his sons.
For instance, he states that Herod Philip's death took place, after a thirty-seven year reign, in the twentieth year of Tiberius, which would imply that he took over on Herod's death in 4 BC.[6] In addition, Josephus says that Herod died after a lunar eclipse [7], and a partial eclipse[8] took place in 4 BC.
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 The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics
In 37 CE, Rome gave the lands of Herod Philip II to Herod Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod the Great and Miriam (of the Hasmonean line).
Herod of Chalcis (41-48 CE) was also guardian of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, and appointed the High Priest.
Both Herod of Chalcis and his son Aristobulus of Chalcis (57-92 CE) felt no need to heed the Jewish prohibition of portraits on the coins issued for their pagan territories, and so their likenesses appeared.
www.amuseum.org /book/page11.html   (472 words)

  
 Philip the Evangelist
Philip the Evangelist was one of the first seven men chosen by the apostles to be a Christian deacon and missionary (Acts 6:2-6).
Philip converted the Ethiopian eunuch and the Samaritan followers of Simon Magus, who was also one of his converts (Acts 8:4-13, 26-40).
Philip entered into conversation with him, and expounded these verses, preaching to him the glad tidings of the Saviour.
mb-soft.com /believe/txh/philip.htm   (442 words)

  
 What ever happened to Herodias and Salome?
Luke 3:1 says that Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis.
But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod, so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.
Herod had been defeated in battle and was exiled by Aretas.
www.neverthirsty.org /pp/corner/read2/r00704.html   (399 words)

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