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HERODIAN DYNASTY © 2018 Craig Bondy Antipater the Idumean So ingratiated himself with Julius Caesar that he was given Roman citizenship, freed from paying taxes and appointed as the first Roman governer of Judea. Father of Herod the Great and Phasael. Died 43 BC Herod the Great Salome I Phasael Son of Antipater, brother of Phasael, Daughter of Antipater, sister of Herod brother of Salome I, governor of Son of Antipater, brother of Herod the the Great, sister of Phasael, tetrarch of Galilee, ordered execution of boy Great, brother of Salome I, governor of area far southwest of Judea and babies 2 years old and younger in Jerusalem, died 40 BC Samaria, died AD 10 Bethlhem, died 4 BC Herod Archelaus Herod Antipas Phillip the Tetrarch Aristobulus IV Son of Herod the Great, brother of Son of Herod the Great, brother of Son of Herod the Great, half brother of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Herod Archelaus, tetrarch of Galilee, Herod Archelaus and half brother of Son of Herod the Great, spent most of Judea/Samaria, removed from power executed John the Baptist, removed Herod Antipas, tetrarch of area far his life in court at Rome, died 7 BC AD 6, banished to Vienne in Gual, died from power AD 39, banished to northeast of Judea and Samaria, died AD 18 Lugdunum in Gaul, died AD 47 AD 34 Agrippa I Herod of Chalcis Son of Aristobulus IV, brother of Herod Son of Aristobulus IV, brother of Herod of Chalcis, king of Judea and Galilee, Agrippa I, ruled Judea for a very short executed James the brother of Jesus, time, died AD 48 died AD 44 Agrippa II Son of Agrippa I, king of Judea, Paul made his defense before Agrippa II and Festus, died AD 92 or 100 Was one of the Tetrarchs Mentioned in Scripture Not Mentioned in Scripture.

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