Agrippa II ( born AD 27 / 28 ), son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great, thus last of the Herodians.

After their joint suicide in 30 BCE, Octavian assumed control of the Roman Empire and granted Herod free rein over Jericho, as part of the new Herodian domain.

Herod (, Hordos, Greek:, Hērōdēs ), also known as Herod the Great ( born 73 or 74 BCE, died 4 BCE in Jericho ), was a Roman client king of Judea.

Even then, Herod the Great tried to bolster the legitimacy of his reign by marrying a Hasmonean princess, Mariamne, and planning to drown the last male Hasmonean heir at his Jericho palace.

thesis on the Jericho pottery data, refers to cylindrical jars at Jericho, saying " t Jericho, most of these jars .. come from an industrial area dating to the time of Herod ".

* Alexander, Judean Prince, one of the sons of Herod the Great from his wife Mariamne

Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).

It was one of the world's first health resorts ( for Herod the Great ), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers.

Herod Antipas from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Remains from Herod the Great | Herod's palace

" For instance, Jesus ' escape from the slaughter by Herod in Bethlehem is compared to Moses ' escape from Pharaoh's designs to kill Hebrew infants.

* Lazarus, bishop of Aix-en-Provence, and Herod, bishop of Arles, are expelled from their sees on a charge of Manichaeism.

* The oldest viable carbon-14-dated seed that has grown into a plant was a Judean date palm seed about 2, 000 years old, recovered from excavations at Herod the Great's palace on Masada in Israel.

* Herod ( band ), the name of a heavy metal band from the United States

Upon learning that Jesus was from Galilee, Pilate referred the case to the ruler of Galilee, King Herod, who was in Jerusalem for the Passover Feast.

He was a favorite of the people on account of his noble descent and handsome presence, and thus became an object of fear to Herod, who at first sought to ignore him entirely by debarring him from the high priesthood.

But his mother Alexandra Maccabeus ( 63 BC – 28 BC ), through intercession with Cleopatra and Mark Antony, compelled Herod to remove Hananel from the office of High Priest and appoint Aristobulus instead.

To secure himself against danger from Aristobulus, Herod instituted a system of espionage against him and his mother.

Herod the Great becomes king of Judea and Ananelus is installed as High Priest, both positions seized from Antigonus II Mattathias after a five-month siege.

The Romans made Herod's son Herod Archelaus ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea ( biblical Edom ) from 4 BCE to 6 CE, referred to as the tetrarchy of Judea.

Herod's other son Herod Antipas was tetrarch of Galilee from 4 BCE – 39 CE.

" When Herod realised that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.

" And when Herod knew that he had been mocked by the Magi, in a rage he sent murderers, saying to them: Slay the children from two years old and under.

Lysanias was put to death in 33 BC, at the instigation of Cleopatra, and the principality passed, by a sort of purchase apparently, into the hands of one Zenodorus, from whom it was transferred ( 31 BC ) to Herod the Great.

King Herod had architects from Greece, Rome and Egypt plan the construction.

Just over half the wall, including its 17 courses located below street level, dates from the end of the Second Temple period, commonly believed to have been constructed around 19 BCE by Herod the Great, but recent excavations indicate that the works were not finished during Herod's lifetime.

The heresy, notwithstanding the severe measures taken against it, continued to spread in Gaul as well as in Hispania ; in 412 Lazarus, bishop of Aix-en-Provence, and Herod, bishop of Arles, were expelled from their sees on a charge of Manichaeism.

In his 1605 thesis, the Polish historian Laurentius Suslyga was the first to suggest that Christ was actually born around 4 BC, deriving this from the chronology of Herod the Great, his son Philip the Tetrarch, and the daughter of Augustus, Julia.

* Cleopatra of Jerusalem ( 1st century BC ), wife of Herod the Great

In 32 BC during King Malichus II's reign Herod the Great started a war against Nabataea, with the support of Cleopatra.

The plot was borrowed from Josephus and the romance of ‘ Cleopatra .’ In 1678 appeared ‘ The Siege of Babylon, by Samuel Pordage of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., author of the tragedy of “ Herod and Mariamne .”’ This play had been licensed by Roger L ' Estrange on 2 November 1677, and acted at the Duke's Theatre not long after the production at the Theatre Royal of Nathaniel Lee's ‘ Rival Queens ;’ and Statira and Roxana, the ‘ rival queens ,’ were principal characters in Pordage's rhymed tragedy.

He produced general surveys of ancient Greek, Roman and Israelite history as well as biographies of giants such as Julius Caesar, Herod the Great, Cleopatra, Nero, Jesus, St. Peter and St. Paul.

Aiding him in his actions was his good friend, Herod Agrippa, who became governor of the territories of Batanaea and Trachonitis after Caligula became emperor in AD 37.

The 36 AD date of the conflict with Aretas IV mentioned by Josephus is, however, consistent ( and shortly after ) the approximate date of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias estimated by other historical methods.

One of these forts, built at the entrance to Wadi Qelt, was later refortified by Herod the Great, who named it Kypros after his mother.

The queen of Egypt lent him the money he needed for the army, and after capturing Jerusalem and surrounding areas in 37 BC, he installed Herod as puppet king of Judaea, replacing the Parthian appointee Antigonus.

Approximately 27 BCE, the city was rebuilt by Herod the Great who named it Sebaste after the emperor Augustus.

The tetrarchy of Judaea, established after the death of Herod the Great, is the most famous example of the antique tetrarchy.

2. 9. 1-4 ), Herod Agrippa I in his first year of reign over the whole Judea ( AD 41 ) killed James, son of Zebedee and arrested Peter, planning to kill him after the Passover.

Immediately after the death of Tiberius ( 37 AD ), Caligula made over to Herod Agrippa, at that time a prisoner in Rome, the tetrarchy of Philip and the tetrarchy of Lysanias, while Claudius, upon his accession ( 41 ), not only confirmed the liberality of his predecessor towards Herod Agrippa, but added all that portion of Judaea and Samaria which had belonged to the kingdom of his grandfather Herod the Great, together ( says Josephus ) with Abila, which had appertained to Lysanias, and the adjoining region of Libanus.

Josephus informs us that, after the murder of his father, young Agrippa was sent by Herod the Great to the imperial court in Rome.

Acts 12 relates that he was eaten by worms, ( possibly Fournier's gangrene, the same disease that may have killed his grandfather Herod the Great ) after God struck him for accepting the praise of sycophants, comparing him to a god.

The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist ( here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan ) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.

Herod then mocks him and sends him back to Pilate after giving him an " elegant " robe to wear.

Two propositions are central to it: first, that St James preached the gospel in Iberia as well as in the Holy Land ; second, that after his martyrdom at the hands of Herod Agrippa I his disciples carried his body by sea to Iberia, where they landed at Padrón on the coast of Galicia, and took it inland for burial at Santiago de Compostela.

Caiaphas brings Jesus before Pontius Pilate to be condemned to death, but after questioning Jesus, Pilate sends him instead to the court of Herod, as Jesus is from Herod's ruling town of Nazareth.

The Gospel of Peter is more detailed in its account of the events after the Crucifixion than any of the canonical gospels, and it varies from the canonical accounts in numerous details: Herod gives the order for the execution, not Pilate, who is exonerated ; Joseph ( of Arimathea, which place is not mentioned ) has been acquainted with Pilate ; in the darkness that accompanied the crucifixion, " many went about with lamps, supposing that it was night, and fell down ".

They are mentioned twice shortly thereafter, in reference to their avoidance of Herod after seeing Jesus, and what Herod had learned from their earlier meeting.

The name " Salome " is given to the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas ( unnamed in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark ) in Josephus's Jewish Antiquities ( Book XVIII, Chapter 5, 4 ): Herodias, [...], was married to Herod, the son of Herod the Great, who was born of Mariamne, the daughter of Simon the high priest, who had a daughter, Salome ; after whose birth Herodias took upon her to

The Jewish historian Josephus mentions the swift action of Varus against a messianic revolt in Judaea after the death of Rome's client king Herod the Great in 4 BC.