History - Middle East - Roman ProcuratorsMattathias ben Johanan
167-166 BCE - leader of the Maccabees
Judas Maccabeus
son of Mattathias ben Johanan
166 BC - took over leadership of Maccabean Revolt from his father
164 BC - purified the temple
161 BC - Roman-Jewish treaty
160 BC - died in battle at The
battle of ElasaJonathan Apphus
son of Mattathias ben Johanan
John Hyrcanus II
son of Alexander Jannaeus
king of Judea 67-66 BC
76 BC - High priest of Israel to 66 BC
47 BC ethnarch of Judea (probably) to 40 BC
died 30 BC
Aristobulus IIAntipater
procurator of Judea by Julius Caesar in 47 BC
Phasael Governor of Jerusalem
son of Antipater
Older brother of
Herod the Great
appointed by Antipater to be governor of Jerusalem
40 BC - died by bashing out his own brains
Herod the Great
Herod king of Judaea
Herod the Great
son of Antipater
73 BC - born, died March/April, 4 BC, Jericho, Judea
57 BC - became lifelong friend of Mark Anthony
47 BC - appointed governor of Galilee by Antipater
41 BC - appointed tetrarch of Galilee by Mark Anthony
40 BC - Parthians invaded Palestine, forcing Herod to flee to Rome
Roman senate nominated him king of Judaea and equipped him with an army
37 BC - became uncontested ruler of Judea
4 BC - died after unsuccessful attempt at suicide
Antipater
son of
Herod the Great
killed by his father, Herod the Great
Herod Antipas (Herod the Edomite)
son of
Herod the Great
4 BC - recognized as tetrarch by Caesar Augustus and subsequently by his brother, the ethnarch Herod Archelaus.
ruled Galilee and Perea as a client state of the Roman Empire
divorced his first wife Phasa'el, married Herodias, who had formerly been married to his half-brother Herod II
put John the Baptist to death
Pontius Pilate sent Jesus to Herod Antipas for trial
39 AD - accused by his nephew Agrippa I of conspiracy against Emperor Caligula, exiled to Gaul
Herod Archelaus
son of
Herod the Great
23 BC - born
4 BC - ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea to 6 AD
part of the Herodian tetrarchy created after the death of
Herod the Great
6 AD - removed by the Roman emperor Augustus when Judaea province was formed under direct Roman rule
18 AD - died
Luk 3:1-2 NASB20
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.
Hasmonean Judea
Herodian tetrarchy
4 BC - formed following the death of Herod the Great