Herod

Mentioned 4–3 BC traditional (Jones)

Mentioned in 10 verses, first in Matthew 2:1.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

Children: Archelaus, Herod Antipas, Philip, Philip
Tagged in: 10 verses

Mentioned in the era of the New Testament, 4 BC to AD 100.
Named in the same verses as Joseph, Aaron, Abijah, Archelaus, Elisabeth, and Zacharias.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Stories

2 events in which Herod takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

3 BCWise Men Visit HerodMatt 2:1-8
3 BCHerod slays male childrenMatt 2:16-18

Places

Places named in the same verses as Herod, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

location not graded: Egypt3
location not graded: Judea3
likely location: Bethlehem2
likely location: Jerusalem2
location not graded: Galilee1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 29 BC to AD 22, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

10 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Matthew9
Luke1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Herod 51
KJV	Herod 44
ASV	Herod 43

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 10 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Matthew9 verses

2:1
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
2:3
When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
2:7
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and learned from them the exact time the star had appeared.
2:12
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
2:13
When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”
2:15
where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
2:16
When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
2:19
After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
2:22
But when he learned that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee,

Luke1 verse

1:5
In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a descendant of Aaron.