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Bethlehem's Birthlight Amid Herod's Final Ravages
A dramatic, historically dense account describes Herod the Great’s siege of Bethlehem, the massacre plan, and the birth of Jesus as rumors reach a dying monarch. The scene moves from Ish tar’s cloisters to Herodium, Rachel’s tomb, and the hillside shepherds, ending with Herod’s death and a prophecy of a safer dawn in Bethlehem.
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Ramah
Rachel
Egypt
Jericho
Jerusalem
Herodium
Bethlehem
Augustus
Herod
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Herod the Great