Innocents, Massacre Of, By Herod

Innocents, Massacre of, by Herod (Mt 2:16). It has been thought strange that Josephus should not mention this atrocity (see Volborth, Veram esse Infanticidii Bethlehem.

hait. Göttingen, 1788); but it was one only, and that a local one, of his many acts of tyranny and cruelty. SEE HEROD THE GREAT.

⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.