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Philip the Tetrarch

Hebrew Name: Herod Philip II

Roman Client Kingdom Prophets: John the Baptist

Herod Philip II , tetrarch 4 B.C.– A.D. 34 , was son of Herod the Great and Cleopatra of Jerusalem. He was educated in Rome with his half brother Archelaus. He is not to be confused with his half-brother, Herod Philip I, (also called Herod II), who was son of Herod the Great and Mariamne II.

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Agrippa I

Hebrew Name: Herod Agrippa

Roman Client Kingdom

Agrippa I, also called Agrippa the Great was the last king of the Jews. He should also not be confused with Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c. 63 B.C.–12 B.C.), who was a well known Roman statesman and general.

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Agrippa II

Hebrew Name: Marcus Julius Agrippa

Roman Client Kingdom

Agrippa II was a Roman client king who sided with Rome against his Jewish countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The son of Agrippa I, he was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great.

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The Jewish kings ruled over vastly different kingdoms in different periods of history. Starting in the early iron age with Saul, several kings ruled over an expanding, "United Kingdom." After the death of Solomon a fissure developed, with ten tribes separating into the Northern Kingdom of "Israel..."

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and the tribes of Benjamin and Judah continuing the Davidic line in the Southern Kingdom of "Judah."

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After the north was conquered by Assyria and the south by Babylon, a Jewish kingdom did not reappear until the second century BC with the establishment of the Hasmonean dynasty. The Hasmoneans were then followed in the first century BC by the Herodian rulers, this final group being clients of Rome, (and actually Idumean).