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This "King Agrippa" is Herod Agrippa II, the great-grandson of Herod the Great. When his father - King Agrippa I - died in 44 AD (see Agrippa), Agrippa II, then a teenager being educated in Rome, was considered too weak to rule over the rebellious Jews, so a Roman governor was appointed to rule the territory of his father. In 48 AD, the new ...
King Herod Agrippa II (r. 50–c. 93 C.E.) was appointed by Festus to hear Paul’s defence. 12. Antonius Felix , Roman procurator of Judea (r. 52–c. 59 C.E.), Paul’s first judge, left him in prison for two years until new procurator Porcius Festus (r. c. 60–62 C.E.) became the second judge, and Paul appealed to Caesar.
Alexandra the Maccabee. Mariamne I ( d. 29 BCE ), also called Mariamne the Hasmonean, was a Hasmonean princess and the second wife of Herod the Great. Her parents, Alexandra Maccabeus and Alexander of Judaea, were cousins who both descended from Alexander Jannaeus. She was known for her great beauty, as was her brother Aristobulus III.
HEROD II (d. 48 c.e.), grandson of *Herod the Great and Mariamne the Hasmonean; son of Aristobulus and brother of *Agrippa i; king of Chalcis 41–48 c.e. The emperor Claudius granted Herod the kingdom of *Chalcis in the Lebanon in 41 c.e. In 45 c.e. he and Agrippa were successful in procuring the revocation of an order by the procurator Fadus ...
Herod (73-5/4 BCE) was the pro-Roman king of the small Jewish state in the last decades before the common era. Early years Judaea and Galilee during the reign of Hyrcanus II
Jan 4, 2022 · However, Herod is the family name of a ruling dynasty in Palestine. There are four different Herods in the New Testament as well as Herod Philip II, who is referred to as Philip the tetrarch in the New Testament. Herod I came to be known as Herod the Great and was also called King of the Jews. He ruled from 37 or 36 BC to 4 BC.
Herod visited Masada, a Hasmonean mountain stronghold situated near the Dead Sea, on at least two occasions before he began his remarkable career as king of the Jews. Popularly known today as Herod the Great, Herod eventually became connected with this site when he indelibly placed his architectural mark on its isolated rocky plateau. Standing at an elevation of about thirteen hundred feet ...
