The prophet who foretold the slaughter years earlier was Joel.
No this is not correct as Jesus was the son of Joseph and Mary and not Herod and not even Herods daughter.
The name or the book? According to tradition, the book of Joel prophesied a vast swarm of locusts and called upon the Israelites to repent. The locusts overran the land as predicted. Others have commented that the four kinds of locusts to which he refers hint to the four kingdoms (Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome) to whose rule the Israelites would be subjected.
There were four Herods
james potter
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.
It was Chuza, the steward in Herods court.
Herod was the name of the family ruling Palestine immediately before and to some degree immediately after Christ's birth. The most prominent family member was Herod son of Antipater. Other Herods named in the New Testament include the following:Agrippa IAgrippa IIDruscillaBerniceHerod PhilipHerodiasSalome
First wife Doris who he divorced. Second wife Mariamne, a Hasmonaean princess he married for political advantage.
Firstly, the question is incorrect - I think it was meant to be, "does Herod's killing of the innocents matter in the Jewish faith?" No. It is recorded in the New Testament, but I suspect there is a mention in the rabbinical commentaries - as there is on many things both religious and mundane. You may want to research into those. Jews see Jesus - Yeshua - as a prophet, not the messiah (unless one is a messianic jew!).
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.
Acts 12:1+2 tells us that "...King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword."The Herods, though working for Rome, were Edomites.
In a plot with her mother Salome danced for king Herod and ,And herod promised her that he would give her anything, so the two, jointly decided to ask for the head f John the baptist on a silver plate. As John criticized Herods wife for her marriage .