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Journey from court here to king. >> herod first comes to our attention as young courier in his father's administration and he originally appointed a local governor in galilee. >> but in 40 bc there's an uprising in jerusalem. >> after the party he's taken over jerusalem. he gathers his mother and his mother-in-law and his wife and flees the city. >> in the desert, herod is attacked. >> so he reports, herod turns and faces the enemy. >> her 0, d wins in josephus

Unsurprising. he's already paranoid, now he's thinking, oh they slunk off back to where they came from because they found something they didn't want to report to him. i think this only causes him to push the panic button. >> kill every male child under the age of two. >> he sends his soldiers to bethlehem to find and kill jesus. >> kill them all. >> herod is a king who would have been perfectly willing to kill in and every person that he needed to achieve his goal. >> find him. >> it's hard to recapture the

Opportunity to claim that he's himself because the previous king has no sons, so he becomes simply through marriage the obvious and all this clearest that there is. >> according to josephus, his choice of bride isn't clearly political. >> i think the only way to describe relationship between herod and marion is one of obsession and he's completely beside it. >> together the couple have five children. it seems like it's a match made in heaven. but he tells us all is not as it appea appears. he seems incredibly and almost jealously infatuated with her and she thinks very little of

Dramatic victory. >> it was important and set him apart of becoming king of judea. >> this victory is the turning point and from there everything is on the up and up. >> rosies the potential in this herod to create a really successful gain. somebody that they can rely on the ground who understands the traditions on the ground, but who they could actually pull the strings on if necessary. the romans put herod into power. the romans support herod. they're the one who grant herod legitimacy and climate king ship. >> herod is a successful ruler, great segment of the population,

Three stories above ground and then a massive tower sticking up two more stories above that. >> this palace was built by king herod. >> he took an impregnable fortress and spread it all around the palace burying the bottom two stories and earth. he built it for himself. this is the only site that he built that he named after himself. this is herod the great's mountain. >> it was a site of great personal significance to him. he won this impressive victory early in his career and it's a place that he associates with