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What year did herod order male boys 2 years old and younger to be killed?
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∙ 12y ago
Opinion:Herod did to the male infants of Bethlehem what he did to countless others elsewhere - ordered their murder. Herod was a known for his widespread violent atrocities that Josephus mentions in general terms - Bethlehem was but one very small fish in the bloodthirsty reign of daily killings, hence would not have been singled out from the much larger picture for mention.
Matthew 2
16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y agoNobody knows. The event is not recorded anywhere except in scripture, which generally isn't big on exact dates.
We know that if it happened it can't have been after 4 BC, because that's when Herod the Great, who is supposedly the Herod that gave this order, died (the Herod that presides over one of Jesus' trials is a different Herod).
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∙ 8y agoAccording to Matthew's Gospel, King Herod feared that the baby Jesus would somehow supplant him as king, and had all the male infants of Bethlehem killed in an episode that has become known as the "slaughter of the innocents". The Matthew nativity story is seen by scholars as a incredible, implausible, far-fetched fiction.
Some have pointed out the clear similarity of the "slaughter of the innocents" story to the Old Testament story of the order of the pharaoh to slaughter all the infants because he feared the baby Moses. They say that Matthew created a story designed to compare Jesus to the early patriarchs. This included giving Joseph's father as Jacob, just as in the Old Testament, and the flight to Egypt. Historians have pointed out that the Jewish historian, Josephus, never mentioned Herod's slaughter of the infants, although he most certainly would have done so had he heard of it.
We can not, with justice, say that Herod really did order the deaths of the young infants.
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∙ 12y agoNo one knows. The event is only recorded in scripture.
The one thing we know for sure it that it wasn't after 4 BC, because Herod the Great died then.
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What is the name of Herod that wanted baby Jesus killed and the name of Herod that crucified him Jesus?
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Joseph and Mary return to Israel after who died?
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