King Herod the Great was an Idumean. Idumea was located just to the south of Judea.
No, Jesus was not King Herod's son. Jesus' mother was Mary, who was not related to Herod. Jesus was born in Bethlehem to Mary and Joseph, and Herod the Great was the ruler of Judea at the time of Jesus' birth.
There are actually several King Herods. There were all part of a lineage that were part Jewish and part Roman. King Herod the Great was the most famous.
It was Chuza, the steward in Herods court.
There were four Herods
First wife Doris who he divorced. Second wife Mariamne, a Hasmonaean princess he married for political advantage.
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Actually there were several Herods, as Herod didn't refer to just one person, but an entire family. Some of them were Agrippa I, Agrippa II, ANTIPATER I, ANTIPATER II, HEROD THE GREAT, JOSEPH, PHERORAS, ALEXANDER, ARISTOBULUS, HEROD King of Chalcis, AGRIPPA I King of Palestine, AGRIPPA II King of Chalcis, HEROD PHILIP, ARCHELAUS King of Judea.
Yanga, an African who had been a king in his homeland.
By killing a lot of his enemies and dying to protect his homeland.
to hide from king Minos
No one knows exactly when king Herod was born. In some historic documentation, it says Herod was born about 73, and died about 4 BC. But, this would have to be totally wrong, since Herod was king when Jesus Christ was born, and also had ordered that thousands of male infants be murdered in order to destroy the Christ Child.
It was not Herods niece who danced but Herods own daughter Salome. She and her mother asked for Johns head on a platter as John told Herod it was wrong to marry your brothers wife.