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May 14, 2024 · The Three Wise Men (or Magi) who traveled from afar in search of a newborn king alarmed King Herod the Great. This irascible ruler of Judea was very easily threatened; he’d even had some of his own family members killed out of fury and suspicion.
May 23, 2024 · After Jesus’ birth, King Herod the Great of Judea – named “king of the Jews” by the Roman Senate – learned of this “newborn king of the Jews” from the Magi. Troubled by the news, he deceivingly asked the Magi to report back to him Jesus’ location “that I too may go and do him homage.”.
May 10, 2024 · King Herod was no darling of the rabbis but he was responsible for the ... it was most likely mythical — a parallel to the biblical Pharaoh who ordered the killing of Israelite babies. ...
- Simon Rocker
1 day ago · Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children,: 61 its main purpose being the prevention of resources being spent on weak or disabled offspring. Unwanted infants were usually abandoned to die ...
May 23, 2024 · The Hasmonean rulers took the Greek title basileus ("king") as the kingdom became a regional power for several decades. Forces of the Roman Republic intervened in the Hasmonean Civil War in 63 BCE and made it into a client state, marking the decline of Hasmonean dynasty; Herod the Great displaced the last reigning Hasmonean client-ruler in 37 BCE.
3 days ago · The Roman client king, Herod the Great recaptured the city in 37 BCE after it had been garrisoned by the Parthian proxy, the Hasmonean Antigonus II Mattathias. [29] After Herod's death in 4 BCE, a rebel named Judas, son of a local bandit, Ezekias, attacked Sepphoris, then the administrative center of the Galilee, and, sacking its treasury and ...
The video is captioned as, “ACTRSS CANDICE KING CALLS OUT RAFAH MASSACRE AND BEHEADED BABIES. The beheaded babies should draw the line for us all.” However, the woman shown in the video is not ...
