Herod Agrippa

King of Judaea (11 BC-44 AD) (r. 41-44 AD)

thumb|280px|right|Perea and its surroundings in the 1st century CE thumb|right|Incorporation into Arabia Petraea 106–630 CE

Machaerus (Μαχαιροῦς, from [a sword]; ; ) was a Hasmonean hilltop palace and desert fortress, rebuilt by Herod and now in ruins, in the village of Mukawir in modern-day Jordan. The site is located southeast of the mouth of the Jordan River on the eastern side of the Dead Sea.

ancient monumental rock-cut tomb in East Jerusalem

four-way division of Herod the Great's Levantine kingdom upon his death

historical region of the Levant

Midrash written during the Geonim rabbinic period.

cave in Jerusalem

Burial site belonging to France in Jerusalem, Israel

Acts of the Apostles, chapter 12

thumb|250px|right|The Herodian Tetrarchy|tetrarchy of Philip (4 BCE - 34 AD), then kingdom of [[Herod Agrippa I (37 - 44 AD) and Herod Agrippa II (53 - 100 AD): Iturea, Trachonitis, Gaulanitis, Batanea and Auranitis]] Batanaea or Batanea was an area often mentioned between the first century BCE and the fourth century CE. It is often mixed with the biblical Bashan, the part of the Biblical Holy Land, northeast of the Jordan River, as its Latinized form.

attacks directed against Jews in Roman Alexandria, Egypt in the year 38 CE

Minṭaqat taqaʻu ʻalá al-Shāṭiʼ al-gharbī lil-baḥr al-mayyit

Biblical story

wife of Herod Agrippa