Herodias
Herodias
HER NAME, THE FEMALE FORM OF “HEROD,” MEANS
“Heroic”
| HER CHARACTER: | A proud woman, she used her daughter to manipulate her husband into doing her will. She acted arrogantly, from beginning to end, in complete disregard for the laws of the land. |
| HER SHAME: | To be rebuked by an upstart prophet for leaving her husband Philip in order to marry his half brother Herod Antipas. |
| HER TRIUMPH: | That her scheme to murder her enemy, John the Baptist, worked. |
| KEY SCRIPTURES: | Matthew 14:3 – 12; Mark 6:14 – 29; Luke 3:19 – 20; 9:7 – 9 |
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