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HEROD

See also:

• AGRIPPA
• AGRIPPA, HEROD, I
• II HEROD AGRIPPA
• AGRIPPA, MARCUS VIPSANIUS

AGRIPPA  . (27-100), son of the preceding, and like him originally Marcus Julius Agrippa, was born about A.D . 27, and received the tetrarchy of Chalcis and the oversight of the Temple on the death of his uncle Herod, A.D . 48 . In A.D . 53 he was deprived of that kingdom by Claudius, who gave him other provinces instead of it . In the war which Vespasian carried on against the Jews Herod sent him 2000 men, by which it appears that, though a Jew in religion, he was yet entirely devoted to the Romans, whose assistance indeed he required to secure the peace of his own kingdom . He died at Rome in the third year of Trajan, A.D. loo . He was the seventh and last king of the-family of Herod the Great . It was before him and his sister Berenice (q.v., B.2) that St Paul pleaded his cause at Caesarea (Acts xxvi.) . He supplied Josephus with information for his history .