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Governor First Of The Territories Of Philip, Then Of The Tetrarchy Of Lysanias, With The Title Of King (“King Herod”), And Finally Of That Of Antipas, Who Was Banished, And Of Samaria And Judea. Thus He Became Ruler Over The Whole Of Palestine. He Was A Persecutor Of The Early Christians. He Slew James, And Imprisoned Peter (Acts 12:1-4). He Died At Caesarea, Being “Eaten Of Worms” (Acts 12:23), A.D. 44. (Comp. Josephus, Ant. Xix. 8.)
48) Invested Him With The Office Of Superintendent Of The Temple Of Jerusalem, And Made Him Governor (A.D. 50) Of Chalcis. He Was Afterwards Raised To The Rank Of King, And Made Governor Over The Tetrarchy Of Philip And Lysanias (Acts 25:13; 26:2, 7). It Was Before Him That Paul Delivered (A.D. 59) His Speech Recorded In Acts 26. His Private Life Was Very Profligate. He Died (The Last Of His Race) At Rome, At The Age Of About Seventy Years, A.D. 100.
•AGUE the translation in Leviticus 26:16 (R.V., “fever”) of the Hebrew word kaddah’ath, meaning “kindling”, i.e., an inflammatory or burning fever. In Deuteronomy 28:22 the word is rendered “fever.”
•AGUR gatherer; the collector, mentioned as author of the sayings in Proverbs 30. Nothing is known of him beyond what is there recorded.
•AHAB father’s brother. (1.) The son of Omri, whom he succeeded as the seventh king of Israel. His history is recorded in 1 Kings 16-22. His wife was Jezebel (q.v.), who exercised a very evil influence over him. To the calf-worship introduced by Jeroboam he added the worship of Baal. He was severely admonished by Elijah (q.v.) for his wickedness. His anger was on this account kindled against the prophet, and he sought to kill him. He undertook three campaigns against Ben-hadad II., king of Damascus. In the first two, which were defensive, he gained a complete victory over Ben-hadad, who fell into his hands, and was afterwards released on the condition of his restoring all the cities of Israel he then held, and granting