Timeline of the Bible · The Apostles
Herod Agrippa
King of Judaea · About AD 37–44
The Years
- Began AD 37
- “Caius gave him the Kingdome, and the third part of the ancient dominion that his unckle Philip possessed”
- Ended AD 44
- “being eaten up of worms he gave up the ghost”
Herod the king (Acts 12:1), called Agrippa by Josephus: Caius gave him Philip's tetrarchy as a kingdom, then Herod the tetrarch's, and Claudius added Judaea. The angel of the Lord smote him at Caesarea (Acts 12:23).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
