The Herod's of the Bible...

If you are like me at all you notice the name Herod throughout the New Testament a lot. For a long time I thought they were the same person. I thought they just lived forever kind of like Methuselah... But they are actually different people. So I wanted to study who they were and figure out as much about them as I could. Here is what I found out; (It might be completely boring to you but it was awesome to me!) The Herod’s Of The Bible The Herod families were IDUMEANS. They were from EDOM (Edomites). Which means that they were decedents from Abraham through Isaac then Esau, not Isaac then Jacob. They saw themselves as Jews and they participated in God’s covenant with Abraham, but their ancestors did not go to Egypt with Joseph and did not return with Moses and Joshua. So they were Arabian Jews that allied themselves with Rome. In 63 BC Pompey the Great of Rome invaded Palestine for the Roman Empire and Antipater joined fo...