Matthew 14:1-10
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.
Luke 3:1
[A.M. 4030. A.D. 26.]
of Tiberius <5086> [Tiberius Cesar.]
Pontius Pilate <4194 4091> [Pontius Pilate.]
Herod <2264> [Herod.]
his <846> [his.]
of Iturea <2484> [Ituraea.]
Ituraea was a province of Syria east of Jordan, now called Djedour, according to Burckhardt, and comprising all the flat country south of Djebel Kessoue as far as Nowa, east of Djebel el Sheikh, or mount Hermon, and west of the Hadj road. Trachonitis, according to Strabo and Ptolemy, comprehended all the uneven country on the east of Auranitis, now Haouran, from near Damascus to Bozra, now called El Ledja and Djebel Haouran. Abilene was a district in the valley of Lebanon, so called from Abila its chief town, eighteen miles N. of Damascus, according to Antoninus.
Luke 3:19-20
Luke 13:31-32
Get away from <1831> [Get.]
This was probably Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, who is described by Josephus as a crafty and incestuous prince, with which the character given him by our Lord, and the narratives of the evangelists, exactly coincide.
I am casting out <1544> [I cast.]
I will complete <5048> [I shall.]
Luke 23:7-11
Herod's ........ Herod <2264> [Herod's.]
for <1063> [for.]
When ....................... and was hoping <1161 2532 1679> [and he.]
So <1161> [but.]
vehemently <2159> [and vehemently.]
Herod <2264> [Herod.]
treated ... with contempt <1848> [set.]
dressing ... in <4016> [arrayed.]
Philippians 4:22
saints <40> [the.]
belong <1537> [they.]
Caesar's <2541> [Caesar's.]
The cruel, worthless, and diabolical Nero was at this time emperor of Rome; but it is not improbable that the empress Poppaea was favourably inclined to Christianity, as Josephus relates that ([theosebes <\\See definition 2318\\> gar <\\See definition 1063\\> en <\\See definition 2258\\>]) "she was a worshipper of the true God." Jerome states, (in Phm) that St. Paul had converted many in Caesar's family; for "being by the emperor cast into prison, he became more known to his family, and turned the house of Christ's persecutor into a church."
