Herod the Not-So-Great

What kind of a man would build a temple to God and kill babies? What kind of a man would give generously to strangers and murder members of his own household? Such a man would be considered a brute. And such a man was Herod the Great, the ruler over the land of the Jews at the time of Christ’s birth. The bulk of what we know about Herod comes from the first-century Jewish historian Josephus.

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