Job 18:11-12
Terrors <01091> [Terrors.]
step <06327 07272> [drive him. Heb. scatter him. to his feet.]
hungry <07457> [hunger-bitten.]
misfortune <0343> [destruction.]
Psalms 73:19
desolate <08047> [How.]
demise <05486> [they are.]
Matthew 14:1-12
Herod <2264> [Herod.]
This was Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, by Malthace, and tetrarch of Galilee and Per‘a, which produced a revenue of 200 talents a year. He married the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia, whom he divorced in order to marry Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was still living. Aretas, to revenge the affront which Herod had offered his daughter, declared war against him, and vanquished him after an obstinate engagement. This defeat, Josephus assures us, the Jews considered as a punishment for the death of John the Baptist. Having gone to Rome to solicit the title of king, he was accused by Agrippa of carrying on a correspondence with Artabanus king of Parthia, against the Romans, and was banished by the emperor Caius to Lyons, and thence to Spain, where he and Herodias died in exile.
tetrarch <5076> [Tetrarch.]
This <3778> [This.]
his ..................... are at work in him <1754 1722 846> [do shew forth themselves in him. or, are wrought by him.]
Herod <2264> [Herod.]
[Herodias'.]
This infamous woman was the daughter of Aristobulus and Bernice, and granddaughter of Herod the Great.
his <846> [his.]
Philip's <5376> [Philip's.]
Herod Philip, son of Herod the Great and Mariamne.
wanted <2309> [when.]
because <3754> [because.]
birthday <1077> [birth-day.]
daughter <2364> [the daughter.]
danced <3738> [danced.]
before <1722> [before them. Gr. in the midst.]
Instructed <4264> [being.]
Give <1325> [Give.]
a platter <4094> [a charger.]
king <935> [the king.]
grieved <3076> [sorry.]
oath <3727> [the oath's.]
beheaded <607> [and beheaded.]
prison <5438> [the prison.]
Josephus informs us that John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod in the strong castle of Machaerus, which he describes as situated about 60 stadia east of Jordan, not far from where the river discharges itself into the Dead Sea.
and given ..... and <2532 1325> [and given.]
took <142> [took.]
Mark 6:14-28
King Herod <935 2264> [king Herod.]
name ........................... him <846 3686> [his name.]
Elijah <2076 2243> [it is Elias.]
[Elijah.]
a prophet ...... prophets <4396> [a prophet.]
Herod <2264> [A.M. 4032. A.D. 28. Herod.]
Philip's <5376> [Philip's.]
It is ... lawful <1832> [It is.]
Herodias <2266> [Herodias.]
nursed a grudge <1758> [a quarrel. or, an inward grudge.]
stood in awe <5399> [feared.]
[observed him. or, kept him, or saved him. and heard.]
a suitable <2121> [when.]
his birthday ... his <1077 846> [his birthday.]
swore <3660> [he.]
<3754> [Whatsoever.]
said ............ said <2036> [said.]
head <2776> [The head.]
hurried <3326 4710> [with haste.]
a platter <4094> [a charger.]
king <935> [the king.]
an executioner <4688> [an executioner. or, one of his guard.]
[Spekoulator <\\See definition 4688\\>,] in Latin, speculator, from speculor, to look about, spy, properly denotes a sentinel; and as these sentinels kept guard at the palaces of kings, and the residences of Roman governors, so they were employed in other offices besides guarding, and usually performed that of executioners. As, however, we learn from Josephus, that Herod was at this very time engaged in war with Aretas, king of Arabia, in consequence of Herod's having divorced his daughter in order to marry Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; and as this event occurred at an entertainment given at the castle of Machaerus, while his army was on its march against his father-in-law; we are furnished with an additional reason why a speculator, or sentinel, should have been employed as an executioner; and are thus enabled to discover such a latent and undesigned coincidence as clearly evinces the truth of the evangelical narrative.
