Job 18:11-12, Psa 73:19, Mat 14:1-12, Mar 6:14-28 | TSK | STEP | Terrors. drive him. Heb. scatter him. to his feet.

Herod.This was Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, by Malthace, and tetrarch of Galilee and Peræa, which produced a revenue of 200 talents a year. He married the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia, whom he divorced in order to marry Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, who was still living. Aretas, to revenge the affront which Herod had offered his daughter, declared war against him, and vanquished him after an obstinate engagement. This defeat, Josephus assures us, the Jews considered as a punishment for the death of John the Baptist. Having gone to Rome to solicit the title of king, he was accused by Agrippa of carrying on a correspondence with Artabanus king of Parthia, against the Romans, and was banished by the emperor Caius to Lyons, and thence to Spain, where he and Herodias died in exile.

Mr 6:14-16; 8:15; Lu 9:7-9; 13:31,32; 23:8-12,15; Ac 4:27

Tetrarch.

Lu 3:1

This.

11:11; 16:14; Mr 8:28; Joh 10:41

do shew forth themselves in him. or, are wrought by him.

Herod.

4:12; Mr 6:17; Lu 3:19,20; Joh 3:23,24

Herodias'.This infamous woman was the daughter of Aristobulus and Bernice, and granddaughter of Herod the Great.

his.

Lu 13:1

Philip's.Herod Philip, son of Herod the Great and Mariamne.

Le 18:16; 20:21; De 25:5,6; 2Sa 12:7; 1Ki 21:19; 2Ch 26:18,19

Pr 28:1; Isa 8:20; Mr 6:18; Ac 24:24,25

when.

Mr 6:19,20; 14:1,2; Ac 4:21; 5:26

because.

21:26,32; Mr 11:30-32; Lu 20:6

birth-day.

Ge 40:20; Es 1:2-9; 2:18; Da 5:1-4; Ho 1:5,6; Mr 6:21-23

the daughter.

22:24

danced.

Es 1:10-12

before them. Gr. in the midst.

Es 5:3,6; 7:2

being.

2Ch 22:2,3; Mr 6:24

Give.

1Ki 18:4,13; 19:2; 2Ki 11:1; Pr 1:16; 29:10

a charger.

Nu 7:13,19,84,85; Ezr 1:9

the king.

1; Mr 6:14

sorry.

5; 27:17-26; Da 6:14-16; Mr 6:20,26; Lu 13:32; Joh 19:12-16

Ac 24:23-27; 25:3-9

the oath's.

Nu 30:5-8; Jud 11:30,31,39; 21:1,7-23; 1Sa 14:24,28,39-45; 25:22

1Sa 25:32-34; 28:10; 2Ki 6:31-33; Ec 5:2

and beheaded.

17:12; 21:35,36; 22:3-6; 23:34-36; 2Ch 36:16; Jer 2:30; Mr 6:27-29

Mr 9:13; Lu 9:9; Re 11:7

the prison.Josephus informs us that John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod in the strong castle of Machaerus, which he describes as situated about 60 stadia east of Jordan, not far from where the river discharges itself into the Dead Sea.

and given.

Ge 49:7; Pr 27:4; 29:10; Jer 22:17; Eze 16:3,4; 19:2,3; 35:6; Re 16:6

Re 17:6

took.

27:58-61; Ac 8:2

Mark 6:14-28

king Herod.

22,26,27; Mt 14:1,2; Lu 3:1; 9:7-9; 13:31; 23:7-12

his name.

1:28,45; 2Ch 26:8,15; Mt 9:31; 1Th 1:8

it is Elias.

8:28; 9:12,13; 15:35,36; Mal 4:5

Elijah.

Mt 16:14; 17:10,11; Lu 1:17; 9:8,19; Joh 1:21,25

a prophet.

Mt 21:11; Lu 7:16,39; Joh 6:14; 7:40; 9:17; Ac 3:22,23

It is.

Ge 40:10,11; Ps 53:5; Mt 14:2; 27:4; Lu 9:9; Re 11:10-13

A.M. 4032. A.D. 28. Herod.

Mt 4:12; 11:2; 14:3-12; Lu 3:19,20

Philip's.

Lu 3:1

It is.

Le 18:16; 20:21; 1Ki 22:14; Eze 3:18,19; Mt 14:3,4; Ac 20:26,27

Ac 24:24-26

Herodias.

Ge 39:17-20; 1Ki 21:20

a quarrel. or, an inward grudge.

Ec 7:9; Eph 4:26,27

feared.

11:18; Ex 11:3; 1Ki 21:20; 2Ki 3:12,13; 6:21; 13:14; 2Ch 24:2,15-22

2Ch 26:5; Eze 2:5-7; Da 4:18,27; 5:17; Mt 14:5; 21:26

observed him. or, kept him, or saved him. and heard.

4:16; Ps 106:12,13; Eze 33:32; Joh 5:35

when.

Ge 27:41; 2Sa 13:23-29; Es 3:7; Ps 37:12,13; Ac 12:2-4

his birthday.

Ge 40:20; Es 1:3-7; 2:18; Pr 31:4,5; Da 5:1-4; Ho 7:5; 1Pe 4:3

Re 11:10

Es 1:10-12; Isa 3:16-26; Da 5:2; Mt 14:6

he.

1Sa 28:10; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 5:34-37; 14:7

Whatsoever.

Es 5:3,6; 7:2; Pr 6:2; Mt 4:9

said.

Ge 27:8-11; 2Ch 22:3,4; Eze 19:2,3; Mt 14:8

The head.

Job 31:31; Ps 27:2; 37:12,14; Pr 27:3,4; Ac 23:12,13

with haste.

Pr 1:16; Ro 3:15

a charger.

Nu 7:13,19-89

Mt 14:9; 27:3-5,24,25

the king.

Mt 14:10,11

an executioner. or, one of his guard.[Spekoulator ,] in Latin, speculator, from speculor, to look about, spy, properly denotes a sentinel; and as these sentinels kept guard at the palaces of kings, and the residences of Roman governors, so they were employed in other offices besides guarding, and usually performed that of executioners. As, however, we learn from Josephus, that Herod was at this very time engaged in war with Aretas, king of Arabia, in consequence of Herod's having divorced his daughter in order to marry Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; and as this event occurred at an entertainment given at the castle of Machaerus, while his army was on its march against his father-in-law; we are furnished with an additional reason why a speculator, or sentinel, should have been employed as an executioner; and are thus enabled to discover such a latent and undesigned coincidence as clearly evinces the truth of the evangelical narrative.