AGRIPPA, HEROD, II. (27-100), son of the
Herod Agrippa I, and
like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was born about
A.D. 27, and received the tetrarchy of Chalcis and the
oversight of the
Temple on the death of his uncle Herod,
A.D. 48. In A.D. 53 he was deprived of that kingdom by
Claudius, who gave him other provinces instead of it. In
the war which
Vespasian carried on against the Jews Herod
sent him 2000 men, by which it appears that, though a Jew in
religion, he was yet entirely devoted to the Romans, whose
assistance indeed he required to secure the peace of his own
kingdom. He died at
Rome in the third year of
Trajan,
A.D. 100. He was the seventh and last king of the family of
[Herod the Great]
?. It was before him and his sister Berenice
? that
Paul pleaded his cause at Caesarea (Acts
xxvi.). He supplied Josephus
? with information for his history.
Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia
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