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I See also: king of Judea, the son of
See also: Aristobulus and See also: Berenice, and See also: grandson of See also: Herod the See also: Great, was See also: born about to B.C
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His See also: original name was See also: Marcus See also: Julius Agrippa
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See also: Josephus informs us that, after the See also: murder of his See also: father, Herod the Great sent him to See also: Rome to the See also: court of Tiberius, who conceived a great affection for him, and placed him near his son Drusus, whose favour he very soon won
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On the See also: death of Drusus, Agrippa, who had been recklessly extravagant, was obliged to leave Rome, overwhelmed with See also: debt
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After a brief seclusion, Herod the See also: Tetrarch, his See also: uncle, who had married Herodias, his See also: sister, made him Agoranomos (Overseer of Markets) of See also: Tiberias, and presented him with a large sum of See also: money; but his uncle being unwilling to continue his support, Agrippa See also: left Judea for See also: Antioch and soon after returned to Rome, where he was welcomed by Tiberius and became the See also: constant campanion of the emperor See also: Gaius (Caligula), then a popular favourite
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Agrippa being one See also: day overheard by See also: Eutyches, a slave whom he had made See also: free, to express a wish for Tiberius' death and the See also: advancement of Gaius, was betrayed to the emperor and cast into prison
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In A.D
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37 Caligula, having ascended the See also: throne, heaped See also: wealth and favours upon Agrippa, set a royal diadem upon his See also: head and gave him the tetrarchy of Batanaea and Trachonitis, which See also: Philip, the
See also: soil of Herod the Great, had formerly possessed
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To this he added that held by See also: Lysanias; and Agrippa returned very soon into Judea to take possession of his new See also: kingdom
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In A.D . 39 he returned to Rome and brought about the banishment of Herod Antipas, to whose tetrarchy he succeeded . On the assp.ssination of Caligula (A.D . 41) Agrippa contributed much by his advice to maintainSee also: Claudius in possession of the imperial dignity, while he made a show of being in the See also: interest of the senate
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The emperor, in acknowledgment, gave him the See also: government of Judea, while the kingdom of See also: Chalcis in See also: Lebanon was at his See also: request given to his See also: brother Herod
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Thus Agrippa became one of the greatest princesof the See also: east, the territory he possessed equalling in extent that held by Herod the Great
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He returned to Judea and governed it to the great satisfaction of the Jews
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His zeal, private and public, for Judaism is celebrated by Josephus and the rabbis; and the narrative of Acts xii. gives a typical example of it
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About the feast of the See also: Passover A.D
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44, See also: James the elder, the son of Zebedee and brother of
See also: John the evangelist, was seized by his
See also: order and put to death
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He proceeded also to See also: lay hands on See also: Peter and imprisoned him
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After the Passover he went to Caesarea, where he had See also: games performed in honour of Claudius, and the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon waited on him to sue for See also: peace
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According to the See also: story in Acts xii., Agrippa, gorgeously arrayed, received them in the theatre, and addressed them from a throne, while the See also: audience cried out that his was the See also: voice of a See also: god
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But " the See also: angel of the See also: Lord smote him," and shortly afterwards he died " eaten of See also: worms." The story in Acts differs slightly from that in Josephus, who describes how in the midst of his elation he saw an owl perched over his head
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During his confinement by Tiberius a like omen had been interpreted as portending his speedy See also: release, with the warning that should he behold the same sight again he would die within five days
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He was immediately smitten with violent pains, and after a few days died
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Josephus says nothing of his being " eaten of worms," but the discrepancies between the two stories are of slight moment
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A third account omits all the apocryphal elements in the story and says that Agrippa was assassinated by the See also: Romans, who objected to his growing power
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See articles in Ency, Bibl
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(W
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J
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Woodhouse), Jewish Ency
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(M
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Brann), with further references; N
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S . Libowitz, Herod and Agrippa (New See also: York, and ed., 1898) ; Gratz, Geschichte d
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Juden, iii
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318-361
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