According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out his soldiers to the Bethlehem area to murder every male 2 years of age or ...

HEROD—Jacob S. Minkin—Macmillan ($2.50). In the New Testament Herod figures as the King of Judea who, when he heard reports of the birth of Christ, ordered all babes in Bethlehem under two ...