Mark The father of Salome and the husband of Herodias, who left him for his half-brother Herod Antipas. Herod Philip 2. Luke Herod Agrippa 1.
Acts It was he who put James to death. Did Jesus Exist? Herod the Great: Friend of the Romans and Parthians? Machaerus: Beyond the Beheading of John the Baptist. Herod Antipas in the Bible and Beyond. Jesus Before Pilate. The world of the Bible is knowable. We can learn about the society where the ancient Israelites, and later Jesus and the Apostles, lived through the modern discoveries that provide us clues. Biblical Archaeology Review is the guide on that fascinating journey.
Here is your ticket to join us as we discover more and more about the biblical world and its people. Each issue of Biblical Archaeology Review features lavishly illustrated and easy-to-understand articles such as:. The All-Access membership pass is the way to get to know the Bible through biblical archaeology. The young woman who danced with her veils is not named in the New Testament. Though Herod the Great killed many of his relatives including three sons, his sister Salome remained unscathed; she was probably quite powerful at court.
Another problem with the Herodians was that many of them carried the same names, so for early historians to mix them up is understandable. I have been thinking that such a table is needed. Sitemap Privacy Policy Disclaimer Advertise. DocReits Reply. Thank You, A. Thank you Andrews. John the Baptist was not living in Bethlehem but in Jerusalem as a child. Please disregard the comment about John as he was about the same age as Jesus. Cancel reply Leave a Comment.
What Is Speaking In Tongues? What Is the Rapture? What does the devil look like? The tension around the palace was so terrible that Salome and her mother made up a story that Mariamne was in love with Mark Antony and that she sent her portrait to him in Egypt. Because of the tensions with the war, Herod nursed some fear that Antony would put him to death.
He put Joseph under strict orders to kill Mariamne if Antony had him executed. It turns out that Joseph was a dummy. The historian, Josephus, tells us that when Herod found out that Joseph opened his big mouth, he had them both killed.
Mariamne bore Herod three sons. One tragically died in his youth. After the death of his second wife, Herod met another Mariamne. By all reports, she was gorgeous, and Herod fell in love with her. Her father, Simon, was a nobleman from priestly descent, so Herod appointed him to the high priesthood and took his daughter as his wife.
So when Mariamne found out that Antipater intended to kill his father, she kept his secret. Herod Philip married his niece, Herodias. And the poor guy is embarrassingly memorialized in Scripture as the schlub Herodias left to marry his uncle a different Herod :.
For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her. We do know she was a Samaritan woman the Jews must have loved this. She gave birth to Herod Archelaus and Herod Antipas. Obviously, we call this wife Cleopatra of Jerusalem to ensure that no one confuses her with her more famous namesake.
She and Herod gave birth to Philip the Tetrarch. As a matter of fact, as his rule went on, he kept leveling up in crazy.
So he continued to spread rumors about them. It got so bad that Herod took the issue to Augustus, charging Alexander and Aristobulus with treason. Augustus talked him out of putting his sons on trial and helped draft a plan for reconciliation. Did that make him happy? The idiot was impatient and made plans to poison his father.
Herod found out, and Antipater was executed just days before Herod died. Throughout his life, Herod showed flashes of insanity. After having Mariamne killed, he would sometimes send servants to fetch her.
As he got older and he grew more paranoid, things got worse. A lot of this came from the stress of trying to appease Rome and Israel and never truly succeeding at either. When he tried to appease Rome by hanging a golden eagle the symbol of Rome at the temple entrance, he set off a firestorm.
Young priests and devout Jews were incensed at the sacrilege. When rumors started circulating that Herod was melancholy and dying, a bunch of Jewish students saw this as a perfect opportunity to destroy the emblem. These rabbinical students chopped it down and destroyed it with axes, but soldiers caught about 40 of the rebels. Herod had them burned alive—along with their two rabbis. He summoned notable individuals from all over Judea and had them imprisoned at the hippodrome theater in Jericho.
When important figures from all over Israel died alongside Herod, he would assure mass mourning. The order was given but it never carried out. In the midst of this madness, Jesus was born. The reason? Because we know that Herod the Great died around 4 BC, and his story intersects with the infant Jesus.
For Herod, the Messiah represents a complete and total loss of focus and power. Initially, he planned to use information from the Magi to strategically remove Jesus. But when the Magi are warned in a dream not to return to Herod, he flies into a rage.
This is really the only time we hear about Herod the Great in the New Testament. In fact, Matthew immediately follows this story up with a nod to the regime change:. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee Matthew — Just before his death, he made one final change. This amendment made Archelaus the king of Judea, and the younger Antipas ruler over Galilee.
Because Archelaus was known to be a bit of a monster, the senate was pulled toward making Antipas the sole ruler over the Jews.
Not only was Archelaus part Edomite like this father, but he was also half Samaritan. But was Archelaus the type to patiently win over the Jews with wise and patient leadership? Heck no.
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