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Herod the Great

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  1. The king of Judea in the first century b.c., Herod ordered the Massacre of the Innocents. His son, Herod Antipas, was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist at the behest of Herod's stepdaughter, Salome.


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The stunning artifacts were found in the area of a sacred compound built by King Herod the Great more than two millennia ago.

From Fox News ● Dec. 7, 2018

Jesus and his family leave exile in Egypt and return to Judea after the death of Herod the Great.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016

Not far away, on the rocky plateau of Masada, Herod the Great built palaces for himself, and in 73 BC, 960 Jewish zealots committed suicide en masse rather than submit to Roman rule.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2013

He writes of how the Gospel of Matthew claims that Jesus was born when Herod the Great ruled in Judea.

From Time ● Nov. 22, 2012

Herod the Great was a native of the city, and added greatly to its beauty; but it suffered severely in the later wars of the Romans and Jews.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

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