Herod


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Related to Herod: Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate
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king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)

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As the prophet Elijah before him, he is a "disturber" of rulers like Herod who flaunt the law of the Lord.
Finding the accused to come under Herod's jurisdiction, Pilate sent Jesus over to Herod who happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.
Dr Jonathan Herod With endometriosis affecting as many as one in 10 females, young women are thought to be most at risk of being undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for endometriosis, according to an official of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
!-- -- Only a wicked King Herod would slaughter the Innocents of Israel.
According to the New Testament, Jesus was seven years old when he returned to Nazareth after the death of King Herod.
We then moved to the palace where Herod was just waking from sleep on a bed of female dancers.
The Coinage of Herod Antipas: A Study and Die Classification of the Earliest Coins of Galilee
As a man whose vilification extends into the present era, Herod the Great presents a significant challenge for the biographer.
Herod, the tetrarch (Rome's ruler of Galilee), has married Herodias, his half brother's ex, and thereby acquired a stepdaughter, nubile Salome.
27-28, 2017, Faith and Resistance Retreat in honor of the Feast of the Holy Innocents, which commemorates the children whom King Herod ordered killed in his attempt to destroy the infant Jesus.
Charles William Wells, age 77, of Herod, passed away at 9:30 p.m.
Bill Herod, founder of Phnom Penh-based NGO Returnee Integration Support Center, called the pardons 'great news'.
Fifth-century church father Quodvultdeus, a student of Augustine, writes vividly of King Herod's dilemma: "Why are you afraid, Herod, when you hear of the birth of a king?
The Holy Family decides to escape When Christ was born, King Herod ordered the murder of all the children of Jerusalem, fearing that one of them will inherit his power.