How did King Herod the Great die?

Answer 1

Herod the Great, Roman client-king of Judaea (c. 74 BC - c. 5, 4 or 1 BC in Jerusalem).

Very nasty death. You can read an account of it here, written by Flavius Josephus:
http://www.interhack.net/projects/library/wars-jews/b1c33.html

The disease Herod had caused him to have a great appetite, his "entrails were exulcerated, and the chief violence of his pain lay on his colon; an aqueous and transparent liquor also settled itself about his feet, and a like matter afflicted him at the bottom of his belly. Nay, farther, his privy member was putrified, and produced worms, and when he sat upright, he had a difficulty of breathing, which was very loathsome, on account of the stench of his breath, and the quickness of its returns; he had also convulsions in all parts of his body, which increased his strength to an insufferable degree...."
http://www.geocities.com/~alyza/Jewish/Herod.html

There is also, of course, a piece in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great

Answer 2

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How did King Herod the Great die?

Answer 3

King Herod (73-4 BCE) is now believed to have died, aged 69, from chronic kidney disease, probably complicated by Fournier's gangrene, which caused his genitals to rot away.

Answer 4

When Jesus was still a child in Egypt. Matthew 2:19 "After Herod died, and angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said "Get up and go back to the land of Israel"....

Answer 5

Few of the sources I referenced gave an exact name to the illness. Several said it was a terrible or debilitating illness; Herod apparently went to springs for a cure and came back even more ill. He was briefly suicidal. One source listed him as being eaten by worms, with many wounds on his body, apparently in great pain and in mental and physical disorder. "Eaten by worms" could be tuberculosis.

New Scientist, however, said he died from "a combination of chronic kidney disease and a rare infection that causes gangrene of the genitalia" called Fournier's gangrene.

Answer 6

Herod the Great died of a nasty painful disease.
Pontius Pilate died in Spain. Before he died he had a compulsive obsessive disorder of constantly washing his hands.

Answer 7

How Did Herod Die

Answer 8

old age

Answer 9

he died a very painfull death,he had some kind of disease,

Answer 10

he fell off his throne