Acts 12:19-21

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¹⁹ Herod looked for him but couldn’t find him. He interrogated the guards and ordered them to be put to death. Then he left Judaea and went down to Caesarea, and stayed there.

Herod’s vanity and death

²⁰ Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They all came together to meet him, and they persuaded Blastus, who was in charge of the king’s bedchamber, to seek a reconciliation. (They were, you see, dependent on the king’s country for their food.) ²¹ So a day was set, and Herod dressed himself in his royal robes and took his seat on the official platform to make a public address to them.