# Herod

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/herod (Enoch Archive).

In the Cave of Treasures Herod receives the Magi who seek the young Child. He trembled before them and told them to seek diligently and come show him so he might make obeisance. Deceit was hidden in his heart while he offered homage with his mouth. Herod was greatly perturbed by the commotion in Judea from Augustus Caesar's edict that every man be registered.

After the Magi left Jerusalem and Herod the star guided them once more. Christ lived in Egypt until Herod died, after which Archelaus reigned. The registration for taxation of men under Herod was completed in fifty days. The Jews were grieved when Jerusalem was destroyed in the days of Herod, the third such time, for they had no trustworthy table of their fathers' generations.

**books:** The Cave of Treasures