Archelaus

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Archelaus, Herod the Great's eldest son, is only once mentioned in Scripture. (Matt. 2:22²²But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: (Matthew 2:22)). He received only half of his father's kingdom, for when Herod the Great died, he divided his kingdom among his three sons, Archelaus, Herod Antipas and Philip. In the tenth year of the reign of Archelaus his brothers and subjects made bitter complaint of his cruelty and tyranny, which led Caesar to strip him of his honors and' banish him to Vienne, Gaul (France).

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