Macedonian Kings of Israel

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Macedonian Kings of Israel

Monday, August 24, 2009 10:04:45 PM

Macedonians...several centuries Macedonians ruled over Greece,Palestine,Egypt....Israel
Macedonians have built many cities and many people from Macedonia were settled in that country.
Some authors estimate that the number of displaced people is ~ 1 million.

Author U. Wilcken says: there is another Macedonia.
These people...have left some traces behind? The answer is: yes.

But, many people says: they are Greeks, Hellenes..bla..bla...
They will not accept the fact that at this time the Greeks or Hellenes were slaves.
Macedonians were masters over them.

Why the so-called Hellenes did not write anything about Philip, Alexander, Ptolomeias ..?
Why Hellenes are quiet a few centuries?

We know about them from Romans,Jews and etc.authors.

Traces?

The names of cities. All cities have Macedonian names, there is not any name of a city-states.
The names of the people.Many people have Macedonian names, almost no one Greek name.
Masters and servants.
The same situation in all countries which are ruled by Macedonians.Masters and servants.

King Herod the Great and Mariamne of Judea I

genealogy

Matthias the Hasmonean had five sons, including Judas Maccabeus & Eleazar Auran, XII:9:4
Eleazar Auran had Jason, XII:10:6
Jason had Antipas/Antipator I, XIII:5:8
Antipas/Antipator had A. II, XIV:1:3
Antipas/Antipator II father of Herod the Great!
Again..Dejavu....
Who is Herod the Great?
Herod was not a Jew.
Herod was born 73 BCE as the son of a man from Idumea (?) named Antipater and a woman named Cyprus.
He had ten wives, the second of whom, and her mother, he had executed: the other nine ended up arguing with him and among themselves about domestic precedence.

Herod the Great married Mariamne of Judea I.She is a descendant of Ptolemy Dynasty (Argeades).
She is Macedonian Queen.

Herod the Great married Cleopatra(Macedonian name).She is not a Jew.It is from Idumea (Hittite).Her son is named Philip (Macedonian name) and her son is married Herodias.They had a daughter, Salome is her name.
Salome (Macedonian ?) "met" John the Baptist.

Who are these people from Idumea (Hittite)...who have Macedonian names?
Idumea fact did not exist before the Macedonians to come there. Idumea is actually just a Idumeni city in Macedonia.
Idumea Hittite

He had numerous offspring, some of whom he also executed: he organised dynastic marriages between his children and other members of his family in violation of Jewish law, and between members of his family and the families of other client kings, though his insistence on Syllaeus, chief executive to the king of Nabataea, being circumcised as a condition of becoming the third husband of Herod's sister Salome, caused the betrothal to be called off.

Herod the Great embraced the elite Roman culture of luxury and excess. This infatuation with Rome, along with generous gifts, established him among influential romans and the Senate. He was appointed procurator of Judaea by Julius Caesar in 47 B.C. Because of his loyalty to Rome he was appointed king of the Jews (at the suggestion of his friends Mark Antony and Octavian) by the Roman Senate in 40 B.C. While there was great opposition from the Jews (because Herod was not a member of the royal family) he eventually took possession of the kingdom in 37 B.C.

Mark Antony's involvement with Cleopatra was a serious threat to Herod since she wanted to reunite Judaea and Syria with the Ptolemaic kingdom. Following the battle of Actium, in which Egypt fell to Rome, Herod's position was assured because of his loyalty to Octavian (who was now the new emperor Augustus.)

Herod also showed a greater talent for survival than his father Antipater, who was poisoned in 43 BCE.
The defeat at Philippi in Macedonia in 42 bc of the chief conspirators in the plot against Julius Caesar strengthened the hands of the ruling triumvirate in Rome: Caesar's nineteen-year-old nephew, and adopted son and heir, Octavian (later the emperor Augustus), and Caesar's former chief assistants, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (d. 13 BCE) and Mark Antony (c. 83-30 BCE).

To eliminate any threat from the Hasmonaean family, whom he had displaced from the throne, Herod systematically had their leaders killed. (Including his Hasmonaean wife Mariamne, and the two son's she had bore him.) Even though Herod tried in many ways to placate the Jews, including the restoration of the temple, they never did forgive him for destroying the royal family.

Even though Herod the Great was well learned, had proved himself in diplomacy and battle, and had undertaken many elaborate building projects, he is best remembered for his cruelty. Any threat, real or imagined, was swiftly dealt with, as is illustrated in the slaughter of the infants of Bethlehem (Mt. 2.)

Herod Dynasty
to make a clearer view of the personality (the father side) of dynasty of Herod the Great. They are:

Antipater-Antipater-Kipros-Fazael-Fazael-Joseph-Feror-Salome-Antipater-Alexander-Aristobulus-Herod Antipas-Antipater-Archelaus-Philip-Olympia-Roxanne-Kipros-Salome-Salampsio-Ahijabus-Berenice-Herodijada-Alexander-Tigran-Antipater-Alexander-Marijamna-Herod-Alexander-Kipros-Agrippa-Herod-Aristobulus-Herodijada-Salome-Herod-Aristobulus-Agrippa-Drusus-Bernice-Marijaruna-Drusius-Aristobulus-Kipros
As we see in the list are present many Macedonian names, no Greek, Arabic name....

We know the stories that Herodot`s was hellenised...But we do not see any name of Demosthenes, Plato, Pericles ..But his ancestors have Macedonian names....Herod coins were written in Koine language...and use the Macedonian eagle-symbol of Zeus....and the authors of the time of Herod wrote that dont had the same blood with the Jews ...

King Herod the Great died at the age of 70 (4 B.C.), within years of the birth of Jesus and John the Baptist and was succeeded by three other sons: Herod Antipas was to rule Galilee and the east bank of the Jordan as a tetrarch; Philip was to be tetrarch of the Golan heights in the north-east; and Archelaus became the ethnarch ('national leader') of Samaria and Judaea.

Herod Antipas

Herod The Great and (fourth family with )Matthace had two sons named Herod Antipas and Archelaus.
Herod Antipas is the Herod that Pilate sent Jesus to. Antipas simply asked idle questions and mocked him before sending him back to be crucified. (Lk 23:7)

Herod Antipas divorced his first wife, the daughter of Nabataean king Aretas, to marry his niece Herodias, who was his half-brother Philip's wife.
Then on the occasion of Antipas' birthday Herodias coaxed her daughter, Salome, to "dance naked before the kingand his court." In appreciation of this Antipa offered Salome any gift she desire. Her request, as instructed by her mother, was for the head of John the Baptist (Mt 14:6; Mk 6:22.)

Agrippa I, or Herod the King

HEROD AGRIPPA, I. (c. 10 B.C.-A.D. 44), king of Judea, the son of Aristobulus and Berenice, and grandson of Herod the Great, was born about 10 B.C... ruled 37-44 .ad.. Aristobulus' son Agrippa, named after Augustus' friend Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa..
genealogy

Agripa-Aristobulos-Mariamne of Judea I-Ptolemy Bar Menneus-Arsinoe-Ptolemy XII...Ptolemaides (Agrians)
Agrippa is best remembered for the death of Jesus' brother James, imprisoning Paul (Acts 12:21), and his incestuous relationship with his sister Bernice. He died at the age of 54 (A.D. 44.)

(Herod) Agrippa I was born in 10 BCE to Herod's son Aristobulus and his first cousin Berenice, the daughter of his aunt Salome.
Having been sent at the age of six with his mother to Rome, where he was brought up in the household of the celebrated Antonia, daughter of Mark Antony and grandmother of Caligula, he became something of an international playboy.

note:
Mark Antony was the Second husband of Cleopatra VII, the Macedonian Queen of Egypt.They have two children: the twins Alexander Helius and Cleopatra Selene (married to king Juba II of Mauretania), Ptolemy Philadelphus


For the greater part of his live, Agrippa lived in Rome. Here he met his wife Cyprus, a distant relative, and here his five children were born: Drusus (who died young), Agrippa, Berenice, Mariamme and Drusilla. He spent all his money, went bankrupt and had to flee from his creditors at the beginning of the thirties.

Like his uncles and grandfather, Agrippa was both a Macedonistic and a Jewish ruler. His building program was essentially Macedonian; for example, he constructed a theater, an amphitheater, baths and porticoes in Beyrouth, a 'pagan' city.(Greeks never build a theater..etc). On the other hand, he did a lot for the temple in Jerusalem, repaired several buildings, and finished an aqueduct that had been ordered by Herod the Great and continued by Pontius Pilate.

Berenice II-the daughter of (Herod) Agrippa I and Agrippa's first cousin Cypros, was married at 13 to the son of the head of the Jewish commu¬nity in Alexandria, and after his death to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, who died in 48 CE. She then became so closely attached to her brother (Herod) Agrippa II, that in order to allay suspicions of incest she prevailed upon Polemo, king of Cilicia, chiefly on account of her wealth, to undergo circumcision and marry her. She soon left him, however, and set up house again with her brother in Jerusalem, being associated with him in supporting the Roman cause in the rebellion which came to a head in 66 CE. In the Roman camp while Jerusalem was sacked in 70 CE, she induced the emperor's son and heir, Titus, twelve years her junior, to succumb to her charms, and accompanied him to Rome. She lived openly with him, and he reputedly promised marriage, but in 75 CE he bowed to public pressure and sent her back to Judaea.

Julius Marcus Agrippa II

Julius Marcus Agrippa: Macedonian king, ruled 48-100. He was the last important descendant of king Herod the Great.
Son of Agrippa I. He was born in the year 28, and according to a statement that is not uncontradicted (Photius, "Bibliotheca," cod. 33), it is said that he died in the year 100.

On the death of Herod II., Agrippa succeeded in having the former's post promised him.

Coin of Agrippa II showing Vespasian on one side and the goddess Tyche on the other.

In the year 50, without regard to the rights of the heir to the throne, he had himself appointed ("B. J." ii. 12, § 1; "Ant." xx. 5, § 2; 9, § 7) to the principality of Chalcis by the emperor, and also to the supervisorship of the Temple at Jerusalem, which carried with it the right of nominating the high priest. Within three years—possibly before he left Rome to assume the dignity of his office—the emperor presented him with larger territory in exchange for Chalcis, giving him the tetrarchy of his great-uncle Philip—over which Agrippa's father had also ruled—together with that of Lysanias (Abilene), and the district of Varus ("Ant." xx. 7, § 1; "B. J." ii. 12, § . Nero, when he became emperor, added to this territory, giving him considerable tracts of Galilee and Perea.

Bibliography: Josephus, Ant. xix., xx.; idem, B. J. ii., vii. (ed. Niese, see index); Acts, xxv. 13 et seq.; on inscriptions see Schürer in Hilgenfeld's Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Theologie, 1873, pp. 248 et seq.; Zeit. Deutsch. Paläst. Ver. vii. 121 et seq.; Monatsschrift, xix. 433 et seq., 529 et seq., xx. 13 et seq.; Bärwald, Josephus in Galiläa u. sein Verhältniss zu den Parteien, Breslau, 1877; Grätz, Gesch. d. Juden, iii. 4th ed., 14 et seq.; Libowitz, Herod and Agrippa (Hebrew), 2d ed., New York, 1898.M. Br.
jewish encyclopedia

source:Flavius Josephus-Antiquities of the Jews
Map of Macedonia or Israel?
http://www.bible-history.com/geography/ ... perea.html