(The Conversation) — King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when Jesus of Nazareth was born, the ruler attempts to find and kill the baby after ...

Herod the Baby-Killer Jimmy Akin Blogs December 28, 2011 Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents—the baby boys that Matthew records were slain on the orders of Herod the Great in his attempt to ...

King Herod, who lived from 74 B.C. to 4 B.C., ... Herod is said to have ordered the slaughter of thousands of innocent babies after prophets predicted one would grow to be a rival.

Later, John recorded the whole picture in Revelation 12:3-4. Herod was the instrument of the Great Red Dragon, Satan, trying to devour the baby. But, the baby was God in the flesh; and God had the ...

But it wasn’t until the birth of Jesus that Herod distinguished himself from all the garden-variety despots then ruling the world. When Herod heard the Three Wise Men were traipsing hither, thither, ...

Herod, the “king of the Jews,” acts like Pharaoh, slaughtering Jewish babies. There’s lamentation in Bethlehem as there was when the angel of death killed Egypt’s firstborn sons.

Why did King Herod try to kill Jesus shortly after His birth? After all, what difference could a tiny baby have made to someone as powerful as he was? — G.P.

King Herod is said to have been buried there ... who flew into a paranoid frenzy when he encountered the three wise men on the way to Bethlehem with gifts for the baby Jesus and telling of ...

King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The scientists found such ...

King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when Jesus of Nazareth was born, the ruler attempts to find and kill the baby after hearing that the ...