Amazing how evil one man could be. This made me ask...why? Why would a Roman emperor want to kill Jesus or even know what he was destined for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_2:16
Jones notes that "surroundings" refers to the rural areas around the village of Bethlehem. It does not refer to any other nearby towns or villages. At the time, Bethlehem was a small village and it and its surrounding area would have had a very small population.[4] Albright and Mann estimate the village would have had only some 300 people at the time,[5] Raymond E. Brown estimates it was around a thousand.[6] For all these figures, the number of children killed would have been less than twenty.[7] This number clashes with the traditional view of thousands of deaths, but it helps explain why the massacre was not mentioned by any historians such as Josephus. The killing of all the infants in a small village would have been only one of many massacres Herod is recorded to have carried out in his later years.[8] At the same time, Brown notes that the double word all shows that the author of Matthew is trying to portray a large massacre.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents
It's because he felt insulted by the Zoroastrian magi astrologers who must have thought he was a pompous moron.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men,
was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children
that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from
two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently
inquired of the wise men.
The World English Bible translates the passage as:
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men,
was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children
who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from
two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had
learned from the wise men.
And they even think they know where he is buried...the guy who discovered the tomb of this horribly evil person died after falling during an excavation of this place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodium#Tomb_of_Herod
Hebrew University professor Ehud Netzer reported on 8 May 2007 that he had discovered the tomb of Herod, above tunnels and water pools at a flattened site halfway up the hill to the hilltop palace-fortress of Herodium, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Jerusalem.[25] Later excavations strengthened the idea that this site is Herod's mausoleum.[26] The base of the tomb has now been uncovered and is visible to visitors to the site.
The 2009–2010 excavations uncovered near the tomb base a small 450-seat capacity theatre (see Herodium#Theatre).
Netzer died in October 2010 from injuries sustained from a fall at the site,[2] and access to the mausoleum was subsequently blocked to the public pending review of the site's safety.
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I guess that's what you get from conducting an archaeological excavation of the Israeli tomb of a genocidal tyrant hell bent on murdering baby Jesus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_2:16
Jones notes that "surroundings" refers to the rural areas around the village of Bethlehem. It does not refer to any other nearby towns or villages. At the time, Bethlehem was a small village and it and its surrounding area would have had a very small population.[4] Albright and Mann estimate the village would have had only some 300 people at the time,[5] Raymond E. Brown estimates it was around a thousand.[6] For all these figures, the number of children killed would have been less than twenty.[7] This number clashes with the traditional view of thousands of deaths, but it helps explain why the massacre was not mentioned by any historians such as Josephus. The killing of all the infants in a small village would have been only one of many massacres Herod is recorded to have carried out in his later years.[8] At the same time, Brown notes that the double word all shows that the author of Matthew is trying to portray a large massacre.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents
It's because he felt insulted by the Zoroastrian magi astrologers who must have thought he was a pompous moron.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men,
was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children
that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from
two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently
inquired of the wise men.
The World English Bible translates the passage as:
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men,
was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children
who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from
two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had
learned from the wise men.
And they even think they know where he is buried...the guy who discovered the tomb of this horribly evil person died after falling during an excavation of this place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodium#Tomb_of_Herod
Hebrew University professor Ehud Netzer reported on 8 May 2007 that he had discovered the tomb of Herod, above tunnels and water pools at a flattened site halfway up the hill to the hilltop palace-fortress of Herodium, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Jerusalem.[25] Later excavations strengthened the idea that this site is Herod's mausoleum.[26] The base of the tomb has now been uncovered and is visible to visitors to the site.
The 2009–2010 excavations uncovered near the tomb base a small 450-seat capacity theatre (see Herodium#Theatre).
Netzer died in October 2010 from injuries sustained from a fall at the site,[2] and access to the mausoleum was subsequently blocked to the public pending review of the site's safety.
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I guess that's what you get from conducting an archaeological excavation of the Israeli tomb of a genocidal tyrant hell bent on murdering baby Jesus.