Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

Philip's

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Bible References

Herod

Matthew 4:12
But having heard that John was delivered up, he departed into Galilee:
Matthew 11:2
But John, having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, sent by his disciples,
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.
Luke 3:19
But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,

Philip's

Luke 3:1
Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

General references

Leviticus 18:16
The nakedness of thy brother's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Luke 3:19
But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,
John 3:24
for John was not yet cast into prison.