Herod family

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Herod family. Herod the Great was appointed King of the Jews by the Romans in 40 BC; he ruled from 37 to 4 BC. Christ was born during his reign. On his death his territory was divided between his sons: Archelaus, as ethnarch of Judaea, Idumaea, and Samaria, who was deposed in AD 6; Antipas, as tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea, the ‘Herod the tetrach’ of the Gospels (4 BC–AD 39) who beheaded John the Baptist; and Philip, as tetrarch of the remaining territory (4 BC–AD 33/4). Agrippa I, Herod the Great's grandson, succeeded to all these territories between 37 and 41; he ruled until 44 and is the ‘King Herod’ of Acts. His son, Agrippa II (ruled from c.50–93 or 100) was the ‘King Agrippa’ before whom St Paul appeared.

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