0217h-HEROD-Herod the Great born 73 BC to 4 BC, was a Roman client king of Judaea,
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Headed colossal building projects in Jerusalem, helped in Massacre of the Innocents, son of Antipater the Idumaean a high ranking official under Ethnarch Hyrcanus II, and Cypros a Nabatean, his most famous and ambitious project was the expansion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, his sons, Herod Archelaus, Herod Antipas, and Herod Philip II ruled as tetrarchs rather than kings.