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Herod

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Herod was the name of several members of the Herodian dynasty of Roman Iudaea Province:

  • Herod the Great (c. 74-4 BC), king of Judea who reconstructed the Second Temple in Jerusalem and was described in the Gospel of Matthew as ordering the "Massacre of the Innocents";
  • Herod Archelaus (23 BC-c. 18 AD), ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea;
  • Herod Antipas (20 BC-c. 40 AD), tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea, who was described in the New Testament as ordering John the Baptist's death and as mocking Jesus;
  • Herod Agrippa I (c. 10 BC-44 AD), king of Judea, called "Herod" in the Acts of the Apostles;
  • Herod Philip (4 BC-34 AD), tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis;
  • Herod III, also known as Herod of Chalcis, king of Chalcis (41-48 AD);
  • Herod Agrippa II (27-100 AD), tetrarch of Chalcis who was described in Acts of the Apostles as "King Agrippa" before whom Paul of Tarsus defended himself.
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