Herod

(her'od) THE GREAT, B. at Askalon, 72 B. c., became governor of Galilee about 47, and through the influence of Mark Antony ascended the throne of Judæa in 40. During his reign occurred the birth of the Me iah, and the consequent ma acre of the innocents. H. was so cruel by nature that for deeds of blood and violence his name became a proverb. - H. AGRIPPA I., grandson of the foregoing, after a residence in Rome received from the emperor Caligula several tetrarchies in Syria, and under Claudius became king of Judæa and Samaria, and a persecutor of the Christians. D. 44 A. D. -H. AGRIPPA II. (the Agrippa of Holy Writ) was made, by the emperor Claudius, king of Chalcis, his patrimony of Judæa having previously become aRomanprov. He opposed in vain the Jewish revolt against Vespas i an, and D. in exile at Rome, about 100 A. D.-H. ANTIPAS, after the death of Herod the Great, his father, became tetrarch of Galilee, and ordered the martyrdom of John the Baptist. He treated the Saviour with contumely when brought before him, and was deposed and exiled, 39 A. D., by order of the emperor Caligula. [s. 452]