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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.
		Damascus, to whom, as a courtier, Herod was a hero.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07289c.htm (2927 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - King Herod
		Herod was a king appointed by the Romans ©
		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's life was one of ruthless political expediency; although the historical evidence for the massacre of infants is exclusively Biblical it appears entirely possible that King Herod was capable of the atrocity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/christianity/history/herod.shtml (556 words)

	Herod
		Herod) also excused those in his kingdom from a third of their taxes---allegedly to recover from the crop-failure, but also to regain those who harbored resentment.
		By (Herod's) edict, the noteworthy Jewish men of all the nation were made to come to him [at Jericho] from wherever (they were).
		So, (Herod ordered Salome and Alexas), when they saw that he had lost his life, they were to station in the hippodrome soldiers who did not yet know of his death and command them to kill the prisoners.
	virtualreligion.net /iho/herod.html (1453 words)

	Matthew 2. The Holy Bible: King James Version.
		When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
		When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
		¶ 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.
	www.bartleby.com /108/40/2.html (637 words)

	Mark 6:14 And King Herod heard of it, for His name had
		And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.
		And Herod the king heard of him (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among the dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.
		And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
	www.bible.cc /mark/6-14.htm (495 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > King Herod
		Herod the Great (c.74-4BC) was King of Judaea, but only by the blessings of Rome.
		Seven years later, Mark Antony elevated him to king, and in 31BC Augustus allowed him to retain his throne.
		Herod is known for being a ruthless ruler, but he was also an able and far-sighted administrator who helped in building the economic might of Judaea, founding cities and developing agricultural projects, the most famous project involving rebuilding of the Jewish Temple.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ki/King_Herod (129 words)

	Archeologist: King Herod's tomb desecrated, but discovery 'high point' - Haaretz - Israel News
		Herod, whose father and grandfather converted to Judaism, was appointed governor of Galilee at the age of 25 and was made "King of the Jews" by the Roman senate in approximately 40 BCE.
		Herod first built an artificial cone-shaped hill that could be seen from Jerusalem, on which he constructed a fortified palace surrounded by watchtowers that he used solely in wartime.
		HEROD was a Roman satrap appointed by Marc Antony
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/856784.html (994 words)

	King Herod the Great
		During a war against the Parthians, Herod was removed from the scene, but the Roman Senate made him king and gave him soldiers to seize the the throne.
		Herod was born 73 BCE as the son of a man from Idumea named Antipater and a woman named Cyprus, the daughter of an Arabian sheik.
		Herod managed to convince Mark Antony, who made a tour through the eastern provinces that had supported Caesar's murderers, that his father had been forced to support their side.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodians/herod_the_great01.html (745 words)

	Herod
		Herod was the great great grandson of the Byerley Turk and the one to immortalise that Turk as one of the only three Oriental sires that all of today's thoroughbreds descend from.
		The Herod sire line continued in three main branches: through his sons Highflyer and Woodpecker in England, with the line of Woodpecker branching to the Dollar sire line in France, and through his grandson Diomed in America.
		Herod's best son was Highflyer (b c 1774), undefeated on the turf and a Champion Sire himself from 1785 to 1796, and again in 1798.
	www.bloodlines.net /TB/Bios/Herod.htm (1711 words)

	Channel 4 - History - Herod the Great
		Herod is one of the most fascinating and appalling figures of the biblical world.
		Each year the evil king is portrayed in Christmas Nativity plays as the monster who killed hundreds of infants in a bid to murder the baby Jesus.
		Herod, king of the Jews, is said to have ordered the murder of hundreds of babies – the ‘slaughter of the innocents’ – just to be rid of the infant Jesus.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/e-h/herod.html (168 words)

	Herod, King - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - National Museum for Art and History
		King Herod is mentioned on various occasions in the Bible
		By the time of Christ's birth, Herod the Great (73-4 BC) ruled Judea as a Roman client king and a citizen of Rome.
		Hearing of the newborn `king of the Jews', the monarch felt threatened and having discovered where the infant Jesus was, he ordered all the baby boys of Bethlehem to be put to the sword.
	www.rijksmuseum.nl /aria/aria_encyclopedia/00051139?lang=en (263 words)

	At Herod's Site, New Hopes and Fears - washingtonpost.com
		Israeli settler leaders said the reported find of the Jewish king's tomb supported their historic right to the area, while Palestinians expressed fears that it would be used as a pretext to increase Jewish settlement construction south of Jerusalem.
		Herod, who ruled Judea from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C., is renowned for monumental building projects, including the expansion of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the construction of the fortress at Masada and of temples and palaces in Caesarea.
		According to the Gospel of Matthew, Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled to Egypt to escape Herod's Massacre of the Innocents.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050800280.html (836 words)

	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.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodians/herod_archelaus.htm (512 words)

	Ancient Tomb of King Herod "Found" - Associated Content
		King Herod is the personality who ordered that all baby boys in Bethlehem under the age of two be killed, according to the Gospel of Matthew.
		King Herod was king of the small Jewish state in the the last decades before the common era.
		King Herod perceived the birth of Jesus as a threat to his kingdom.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/237881/ancient_tomb_of_king_herod_found.html (491 words)

	King Herod Tomb Discovered At Herodium Israel
		Herod was the Roman-appointed king of Judea from 37 to 4 BCE, who was renowned for his many monumental building projects, including the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the palace at Masada, as well as the complex at Herodium, 15 kilometers south of Jerusalem, Israel.
		This is assumed with certainty to be the sarcophagus of Herod.
		Around the bier were Herod’s sons and a large group of his relations; these were followed by the guards, the Thracian contingent, Germans and Gauls, all equipped as for war.
	www.israelnewsagency.com /kingherodthegreattombgravehebrewuniversityjerusalemisrael48050807.html (1145 words)

	Historians, Fans Defend the 'Real' King Herod -- Beliefnet.com
		Herod was born in 74 B.C. to an Arabian princess and a politically active father whose family had converted to Judaism.
		But Herod always claimed to be an observant Jew, evidenced by the discovery of ritual baths in his palaces and records of a joke told by Emperor Caesar Augustus that he'd rather be one of Herod's swine -- safe from slaughter because the king kept kosher -- than one of his sons.
		Herod's commitment to Judaism and his positive relationship with Rome meant his subjects were allowed to worship freely.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/206/story_20620_1.html (985 words)

	History of Christmas: King Herod
		For instead of understanding the question to mean "Where is he who will someday succeed you", Herod's suspicious mind warped the query into "Where is the REAL king, you impostor?" At the time Herod mistrusted everyone and thought himself surrounded by young aspirants all plotting to seize his throne.
		Herod's father had given crucial help to Julius Caesar when he was down in Egypt, cut off from his supplies, and Caesar rewarded him handsomely for that.
		Herod was so jealous of his favorite wife (he married ten wives) that on two occasions he ordered that she be killed if he failed to return from a critical mission.
	www.billpetro.com /HolidayHistory/hol/xmas/herod12.html (593 words)

	King Herod's grave uncovered in hilltop fortress \| Art & Architecture \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Herod is best known for the Slaughter of the Innocents, which is recounted in the Gospel According To Matthew.
		When Herod discovered that he had been tricked, he ordered the killing of all boys under the age of two to protect himself from the new "king".
		Herod was appointed King of the Jews by the Roman senate and he conquered Judea in 37BC.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /art/news/story/0,,2074823,00.html (544 words)

	Herod
		Herod fled to Masada with 500 women who were being bartered in connection with the Parthian alliance.
		Herod Antipas, 4 BCE to 40 CE 4 BCE to 40 CE AE 19.
		Herod of Chalcis (III), 41 to 48 CE Grandson of Herod the Great and Mariamne, also brother of Agrippa I. Claudius gave his authority over the Temple, holy vessels and selection of high priest.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze3xycv/RulersCoins/herodpic.htm (705 words)

	King Herod's Death Unraveled
		According to the texts, Herod's last days were full of "intense itching, painful intestinal problems, breathlessness, convulsions in every limb, and gangrene of the genitalia," Hirschmann says in a news release.
		Writes Herod's biographer: "He had a fever, though not a raging fever, an intolerable itching of the whole skin, continuous pains in the intestines, tumors in the feet...
		One treatment his physicians tried, to raise Herod's body temperature: "He was lowered into a bath full of [hot mineral oil], whereupon he fainted and turned up his eyes as though he were dead," says the biographer.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/18/1685_52817 (587 words)

	The history of King Herod
		Herod became known to Sextus Caesar, a relation of the great Caesar, who was now president of Syria.
		When Herod received the kingdom, he slew all the members of that sanhedrin excepting Sameas, whom he respected because he persuaded the people to admit Herod into the city, and he even slew Hyrcanus also.
		He so worked on the mind of the king by false accusations against Alexander that many of the friends of this youth were tortured to death in the attempts made to force disclosures from them.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Outline_of_Great_Books_Volume_I/kingherod_cc.html (1177 words)

	Herod
		Herod has his architects raise the summit and build his palace inside this man-made cone.
		Herod's architects created water channels and cisterns to provide drinking water during the long, dry summers.
		Herod's projects were built through the use of thousands of Jews as forced laborers moving enormous blocks of limestone.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Herod.html (867 words)

	Bible Study - King Herod
		Herod was assigned a territorial rulership by the Romans, making him a "client king." His area covered from Gaza to Masada in southern Israel, north beyond Nazareth, and then a section east beyond the Golan Heights into what is today Syria.
		If Herod had not died while Jesus was still an infant, he certainly would have been a problem later because this is the very area that Christ lived and conducted His entire recorded ministry.
		It was Herod's great reconstructed Temple that Jesus Christ walked about in during His lifetime, and where the well-known incident of driving out the money changers occurred, when Jesus called it "My Father's House" (John 2:14-16).
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20021113.htm (458 words)

	MidEast Web - Middle East Israel - Palestinian Conflict TimeLine
		Henry King and Charles Crane, the US members of the International Commission of Inquiry, sent primarily on the initiative of President Wilson, present their report based on their visit to the region in June-July, against creation of a Jewish National home in Palestine.
		King Farouk of Egypt and PM Za'im of Syria agree on a common front against Iraq.
		King Faruq forced to abdicate (26 Jul) and is exiled.
	www.mideastweb.org /timeline.htm (7809 words)

	Crash Course in Jewish History Part 31 - Herod, the Great
		Herod first leadership role was as governor of the Galilee, a position granted to him by his father, Antipater.
		Herod will reigned as king of Judea from 37 BCE until his death in 4 BCE, a very long reign of 33 years, and in many ways a good period in terms of development of the country and social stability.
		Herod's paranoia, his interference with the Temple hierarchy, and his dedication to the Hellenization of the Jewish people all contributed to the growing discontent that would erupt in a revolt against Rome some 70 years after his death.
	www.aish.com /literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_31_-_Herod3_the_Great.asp (3295 words)

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		When the great King Herod died, his kingdom was split between his sons, two of whom did add Herod to their names.
		King Herod (I) was 'king of Judea' but was also 'king of galilee'..the terms would not have been understood as restrictive (king of 'only') BEFORE the kingdom divided...
		Herod the Great's dad had aided Caesar in that endeavor and so won the favor of Julius Caesar (and with it a procuratorship of, plus Roman citizenship and exemption from taxes.) Then in 47 BC, the daddy Herod appointed the son Herod to be governor of Galilee...still completely under Roman rule.
	www.christian-thinktank.com /quirinius.html (2739 words)

	Herod
		Herod fled to Masada with 500 women who were being bartered in connection with the Parthian alliance.
		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.
	members.verizon.net /vze3xycv/RulersCoins/herodpic.htm (705 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| King Herod's ancient tomb 'found'
		Herod was noted in the New Testament for his Massacre of the Innocents.
		Experts have always believed that Herod was buried somewhere within the palace complex he had constructed on a flattened hilltop in the Judean desert, but they had repeatedly struggled to find any evidence to back up their theories.
		Herod was appointed "King of the Jews" by the Roman authorities and ruled Judea from 37 BC until his death in around 4 BC.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/6633979.stm (526 words)

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