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When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they ^(C1)be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to ^(C2)Caesarea and was spending time there.

Now he was very angry with the people of ^(C1)Tyre and Sidon; and with one mind they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king's chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because ^(C2)their country was supported with grain from the king's country.

On an appointed day, after putting on his royal apparel, Herod took his seat on the ^(F1)rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

The people repeatedly cried out, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"

And immediately ^(C1)an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and ^(F1)died.