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When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they ^(w)be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to ^(x)Caesarea and was spending time there.

Now he was very angry with the people of ^(y)Tyre and Sidon; and with one accord they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king's chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because ^(z)their country was fed by the king's country.

On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the ^[j]rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

The people kept crying out, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"

And immediately ^(aa)an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and ^[k]died.

But ^(ab)the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.