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Markus 6:21
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Als aber ein gelegener Tag kam, da Herodes seinen Großen und Obersten und den Vornehmsten des galiläischen Landes an seinem Geburtstag ein Gastmahl gab,
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
when: Genesis 27:41, 2 Samuel 13:23-29, Esther 3:7, Psalms 37:12, Psalms 37:13, Acts 12:2-4
his birthday: Genesis 40:20, Esther 1:3-7, Esther 2:18, Proverbs 31:4, Proverbs 31:5, Daniel 5:1-4, Hosea 7:5, 1 Peter 4:3, Revelation 11:10
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:15 - a feast Esther 1:11 - Vashti Ecclesiastes 7:4 - the heart Matthew 14:6 - birthday 1 Corinthians 16:12 - when
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when a convenient day was come,.... For Herodias; who had long sought and watched for an opportunity of avenging herself on John, and such a time Herod's birthday proved; though some think, that this phrase is the same with יום טוב, "a good day"; often used by the Jews for a festival, any one of their feast days; there is a tract in their Misna which bears this name; and that such a day was this. But not one of the festivals of the Jews was this, as either their passover, or pentecost, or feast of tabernacles, which Herod had no regard to; but his own birthday, which he kept as a festival, in eating, and drinking, and dancing; and so was a very opportune and seasonable time for Herodias to take the advantage of Herod when in a good humour, amidst his company, and in his cups, to solicit that, which she had often done without success: and so it was now,
that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee: this birthday, was either the day of his natural, or civil birth; the day when he was born into the world, or of his accession to the throne;
:-, when he made a grand entertainment in the evening for his nobles, and the officers of the army, the captains of thousands, and the principal men, those of the first rank and quality in Galilee, of which he was Tetrarch.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 21. Lords — μεγιστασιν, probably governors of particular districts.
High captains — χιλιαρχοις; literally, chiefs or captains over a thousand men, military chiefs.
Chief estates — πρωτοις; probably such as might be called nobles by title only, having no office civil or military; probably magistrates. See KYPKE an the place.
