When Herod died in 4 B.C.E., his demise was long and painful. Josephus describes Herod’s suffering as “the penalty that God was exacting of the king for his great impiety”—a tyrant’s death.

Herod the Great and his son became the New Testament ... and narrowly escaped being condemned to death. Having at first received the blessing of Rome, the independent Jewish kingdom increasingly ...

(page 1) In Biblical history, Herod “the Great,” Rome’s client king of Judaea (ruled 40 ... written about seven decades after Herod’s death.) But he did order the execution of many of his subjects, ...

They had to ask. Herod the Great, King of Judea, felt threatened when the Magi—wise men from the East—arrived in Jerusalem asking, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?