Acts 12:20
Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the support of Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their region depended on the king’s country for food.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Tyre, Sidon
- WHEN
- AD 44
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WHEN
AD 44
counted from the text
The firmest date in Acts, and it comes from outside the book.
WHO RULED
- Herod Agrippa I king of Judea AD 41-44 IN THE TEXT
- Claudius emperor of Rome AD 41-54
SOURCES
- date — Josephus (Antiquities XIX.8.2) dates the death of Herod Agrippa I to AD 44, and Acts 12:23 tells of the same death.
- Herod Agrippa I — Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.6-XIX.8, which dates his death to AD 44
- Claudius — Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
SEE ALSO
- Ezra 3:7 They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus…
- Ezekiel 27:17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.
- Matthew 11:21-22 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth…
- Luke 14:31-32 Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand? …
- Luke 16:8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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