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Herod The Great: (Matthew 2:1-22; Luke 1:5; Acts 23:35) the son of Antipater, an Idumaean, and
Cypros, an Arabian of noble descent. In the year B.C. 47 Julius
Caesar made Antipater, a "wily Idumaean," procurator of Judea, who
divided his territories between his four sons, Galilee falling to the
lot of Herod, who was afterwards appointed tetrarch of Judea by Mark
Antony (B.C. 40) and also king of Judea by the Roman senate. He was of
a stern and cruel disposition. "He was brutish and a stranger to all
humanity." Alarmed by the tidings of one "born King of the Jews," he
sent forth and "slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in
all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under"
(Matthew 2:16) He
was fond of splendour, and lavished great sums in rebuilding and
adorning the cities of his empire. He rebuilt the city of Caesarea
(q.v.) on the coast, and also the city of Samaria (q.v.), which he
called Sebaste, in honour of Augustus. He restored the ruined temple
of Jerusalem, a work which was begun B.C. 20 but was not finished till
after Herod's death, probably not till about A.D. 50
(John 2:20)
After a troubled reign of thirty-seven years, he died at Jericho amid
great agonies both of body and mind, B.C. 4 i.e., according to the
common chronology, in the year in which Jesus was born. After his
death his kingdom was divided among three of his sons. Of these,
Philip had the land east of Jordan, between Caesarea Philippi and
Bethabara, Antipas had Galilee and Peraea, while Archelaus had Judea
and Samaria.
