Hey, my friends, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, and we have got one

and only one objective today, and that is to figure out what the deal is with this

Herod who comes up in Matthew chapter 14.

There are 11 billion Herod's in the Bible.

It just seems like every time you turn around, there's a Herod, and they have some different

title that's a confusing title.

This is hard to know which one is which.

We've talked about this before, but specifically this time around, I want to focus on the Herod

described in Matthew chapter 14, verses 1 and 2, goes like this.

At that time, Herod the tetrarke heard the reports about Jesus, and he said to his attendants,

this is John the Baptist.

He's risen from the dead.

That's why miraculous powers are at work in him, and then Herod goes on to do some stuff

with John, and we're going to get into that whole tragic story a little bit later on.

To make sense of which Herod this is, we're going to have to rewind a few centuries before

what's going on here around probably 28, 29, 30-ish AD.

We're going to have to go back all the way back to a thousand years before the time of

Christ.

You got King David, the most important, famousist king of all the kings of Israel ever sitting

on the throne, and then he dies, and his kid Solomon takes over, and then Solomon's

kids, they don't get along so well, they don't get along with their dad so well, there's

something of a civil war, and this ancient Hebrew kingdom splits into two parts.

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