(), king of CHALCIS, was
son of Aristobulus, the ill-fated son of the Asmonean Mariamne, and brother of
Herod Agrippa I. (J. AJ 18.5.4.) He obtained the kingdom of
Chalcis from Claudius at the request of his brother Agrippa (A. D.
41): he was at the same time honoured by the emperor with the praetorian dinity; and
after the death of Agrippa (A. D. 44), Claudius bestowed upon him the general superintendence
of the temple and sacred treasury at Jerusalem, together with the right of appointing the
high-priests. Of the latter privilege he availed himself, first to remove Cantheras, and
appoint Joseph, the son of Camus, and again, subsequently to displace Joseph, and bestow that
high dignity upon Ananias, the son of Nebedeus. These are all the events that are recorded of
his reign, which lasted less than eight years, as he died in A. D. 48,
when his petty kingdom was bestowed by Claudius upon his nephew, Herod Agrippa II. (J. AJ 19.5.1, 20.1.3, 5.2, B. J. 2.11. §§ 5, 6; D. C. 60.8.) He was twice married, first to Mariamne, daughter of
Olympias, the daughter of Herod the Great, by whom he had a son, Aristobulus; secondly, to the
accomplished Berenice, daughter of his brother Agrippa, who bore him two sons, Berenicianus
and Hyrcanus. (J. AJ 18.5.4, 20.5.2.)