Ac 25:13-27. HEROD AGRIPPA II ON A VISIT TO FESTUS, BEING CONSULTED BY HIM ON PAUL'S CASE, DESIRES TO HEAR THE APOSTLE, WHO IS ACCORDINGLY BROUGHT FORTH.
13. King Agrippa--great-grandson of Herod the Great, and
Drusilla's brother (see on
Ac 24:24).
On his father's awful death
(Ac 12:23),
being thought too young (seventeen) to succeed, Judea, was attached to
the province of Syria. Four years after, on the death of his uncle
Herod, he was made king of the northern principalities of Chalcis, and
afterwards got Batanea, Iturea, Trachonitis, Abilene, Galilee, and
Perea, with the title of king. He died A.D. 100,
after reigning fifty-one years.
and Bernice--his sister. She was married to her uncle Herod, king of
Chalcis, on whose death she lived with her brother Agrippa--not without
suspicion of incestuous intercourse, which her subsequent licentious
life tended to confirm.
came to salute Festus--to pay his respects to him on his accession to
the procuratorship.
JFB.
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