Act 12:20-23 | JFB | STEP | 20. Herod was ... displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon-- for some reason unknown; but the effect on their commercial relations made the latter glad to sue for peace. their country was nourished by the king's country-- See ; ; . Perhaps the famine ( ) made them the more urgent for reconciliation.

‏ Acts 12:20-23

Ac 12:20-25. Herod's Miserable End--Growing Success of the Gospel--Barnabas and Saul Return to Antioch.

20. Herod was ... displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon--for some reason unknown; but the effect on their commercial relations made the latter glad to sue for peace.

their country was nourished by the king's country--See 1Ki 5:11; Ezr 3:7; Eze 27:17. Perhaps the famine (Ac 11:28) made them the more urgent for reconciliation.

21. And upon a set day Herod ... made an oration unto them--to the Tyrians and Sidonians especially.

22-23. the people gave a shout, &c.--Josephus' account of his death is remarkably similar to this [Antiquities, 19.8.2]. Several cases of such deaths occur in history. Thus was this wretched man nearer his end than he of whom he had thought to make a public spectacle.