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The Roman Senate retained jurisdiction over the major part of the empire, Caesar Augustus had control of troublesome outposts which included ten dependencies/client kingdoms which were allowed to have their own kings. These kings were were subordinate to the emperor. Ruthless Herod Agrippa gained control of Phillip's, Antipas' teritories as well as Judea. See notes below.*

These kingdoms (shown in yellow) were:-
BOSPORUS, THRACE, LYCIA, GALATIA, PONTUS, LYCAONIA, CAPPADOCIA, ARMENIA, JUDAEA and EGYPT.

THE HERODIAN FAMILY
(From Barnes on Matthew page 9 + others)

"Herod the Great"
King of Ituraea, Trachonitis, Galilee, Samaria, Perea, Judaea and Idumaea (BC 37 - BC 4)
All this teritory was called the kingdom of Judaea (Matthew 2:1-19)
[He was a "half Jew"%. His father, Antipator, was an Idumaean and his Mother a Nabataean @]
 
2nd.wife
Mariamne
|		 3rd wife
Mariamne
|		 4th.wife
Malthace
_________|__________		 5th.wife
Cleopatra
|
Aristoblus
____________________|____________________		 |
|		 |
Archelaus		 |
Philip		 |
Herod Antipas
| | | | (Matthew 2:22) (Luke 3:1) (Matthew 14:1)
Herod Agrippa I
(Acts 12:1-23)		 Aristoblus
|		 Herodias*
(Mark 6:22)		 +
|		 Philip
(Mark 6:17)		 Ethnarch of
Judea		 Tetrarch of
Ituraea and		 (Luke 3:1)
Tetrarch of
Hasmonaean
descent #
King of Judea *
AD 37-44
|
Agrippa II
(Acts 25:13)
(Acts 26:2)		 Herod
(Mark 6:22)		 Salome
(Mark 6:22)		 BC 4 - AD 6
Exiled and
replaced by
procurators		 Trachonitis
BC 4 - AD 37		 Galilee
BC 4 - AD 39
+ Herodias*
(Mark 6:18-19)

NOTES:-
* The Hasmonian, Herod Agrippa, acquired all the territory that had been held by his grandfather, "Herod the Great" as follows (Daniel 7:24) :-
  1) When Philip died (AD 37) Agrippa I persuaded Caligula to give him Philip's territory. This would normally have gone to Philip's heir.
  2) He then persuaded Caligula to give him Antipas' territory (AD 39).
  3) Lastly he persuaded the next emperor, Claudius, to give him Judaea (AD 41).
  Herod Agrippa persecuted the church, to the delight of the Jews (Acts 12:1-4, Daniel 7:21), for three and a half years (Daniel 7:25. AD 41-44). He was proud and boastful (Daniel 7:25). Consequently God smote him (Acts.12:20-22). He was the last king of Judaea.That was the end to Judaea as a kingdom (Daniel 7:22, 26) but the kingdom of the saints prospered (Daniel 7:22, 27, Acts 12:24).
# L.H.Grollenberg's Atlas of the Bible p.121
@ Atlas of the Bible p.113
% "Introducing the Bible" Gerald Hughes and Stephen Travis.
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