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| Name | HEROD THE GREAT |
| Aliases | KING OF JUDEA / THE BUILDER OF THE TEMPLE / SLAYER OF THE INNOCENTS |
| Status | DECEASED / TROUBLED BY THE NEWBORN KING / MURDERER OF BETHLEHEM'S CHILDREN |
| Birth | UNRECORDED | Marks & Identifiers | THE PARANOID KING WHO FEARED A CHILD |
| Place of Birth | IDUMEA / JUDEA | Hair | UNRECORDED |
| Tribe | NONE (AN IDUMEAN) | Eyes | UNRECORDED |
| Parentage | SON OF ANTIPATER THE IDUMEAN | People | THE KINGDOM OF JUDEA |
| Occupation | KING OF JUDEA (UNDER ROME) | Species | HUMAN |
| Affiliation | THE HERODIAN DYNASTY | Calling | THE KING WHO SOUGHT THE CHRIST-CHILD'S LIFE |
| Primary Mission | SECURE HIS THRONE AGAINST ALL RIVALS | Known Signs | THE VISIT OF THE MAGI / THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS |
| Covenant Role | A THREAT TO THE INFANT CHRIST, OVERRULED | Divine Access | INDIRECT / WARNED OF THE NEWBORN KING BY THE MAGI |
| Divine Encounter Level | INDIRECT | Imperial Classification | THE PARANOID KING |
| Covenant Status | ENEMY OF THE PROMISED KING | Known Miracles | NONE RECORDED |
| Divine Commission | CONDEMNED | Threat Assessment | THE NEWBORN KING OF THE JEWS / HIS OWN FEAR |
| Mission Status | JUDGED / DIED AS THE CHILD WAS KEPT SAFE | Archive Category | NATIVITY / THE THREATENED CHILD |
What he asked the magi to do: BRING WORD, THAT I TOO MAY COME AND WORSHIP
What he did when they did not return: KILLED ALL THE BOYS OF BETHLEHEM UNDER TWO
The subject reigned as king of Judea under Rome, a great and ruthless builder who enlarged the temple, yet was consumed by suspicion, having even members of his own family put to death to guard his throne.
When magi from the east came to Jerusalem asking where the king of the Jews had been born, the subject was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him, and he gathered the chief priests to learn that the Christ was to be born in Bethlehem.
He secretly summoned the magi, learned the time the star had appeared, and sent them to Bethlehem, asking them to bring back word so that he too might come and worship, though he meant only to destroy the child.
But the magi, warned in a dream, returned another way; and an angel warned Joseph to flee with the child and His mother into Egypt, out of the subject's reach.
When the subject saw he had been outwitted, he was furious, and sent and killed all the boys in Bethlehem two years old and under, fulfilling the weeping foretold by Jeremiah. Soon afterward the subject died, and it was safe for the child to return.
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- A heart ruled by fear of losing power will stop at nothing, even murder.
- No throne can defend itself against the King whom God has sent.
- God watches over His purposes and delivers His own from the tyrant's hand.
