Texts: Psalm 72; Matthew 2: 1-20
It would, of course, be an understatement to say that Herod was not a nice guy. For kings in the ancient world, however, he was long-lived. Born around 74 or 73 BCE, he survived until he died of natural causes – unlike some of his wives and children – in the year 4 BCE. Five days before his own death, Herod executed his first born Antipater II, the son of his first wife Doris, whom he divorced. We hear nothing of her afterwards. He set up a trump trial with perjured witnesses to have his second wife Marianne I executed on charges of adultery. In fact, to save her own skin, Marianne's mother testified against her. So much for motherly love. When the former mother-in-law conspired with Marianne's two sons fifteen years later, they were all murdered.
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 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" MICAH 6:8 NRSV |
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