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The early 5th-century account of Macrobius—that "on hearing that the son of Herod, king of the Jews, had been slain when Herod ordered that all boys in Syria under the age of two be killed, [Augustus] said, 'It's better to be Herod's pig than his son'"—has been discounted as extra-biblical evidence for the event due to its later authorship ...
15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, saying, 16 “When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, fearing God, did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. 18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to ...
Matthew 2:16 is the sixteenth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.. Joseph and Mary had been visited by an angel and told that Herod would attempt to kill Jesus, their son.
Philo explained that Pharaoh ordered that girl babies be allowed to live, because women were disinclined and unfit for war, and Pharaoh ordered that boy babies be destroyed, because an abundance of men could be "a fortress difficult to take and difficult to destroy". [90] Moses Trampling on Pharaoh's Crown (1846 illustration by Enrico Tempestini)
Mothers being treated for life-altering injuries can finally begin to process the loss of a child and struggle with their diminished ability to care for their surviving children. “My daughter is ...
Between the death of Cleopatra, on August 12, 30 BC, up to his own own death in late August 30 BC, he was nominally the sole pharaoh. Ultimately, he was killed on the orders of Octavian, who would become the Roman emperor Augustus. While younger children of Cleopatra did survive Egyptian-Roman war, Octavian denied them inheritance of Egypt. [164]
Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan cries after his wife, newborn twin babies, and mother-in-law died during an Israeli airstrike, at the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on Aug. 13, 2024.
Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, [1]: 61 its main purpose being the prevention of resources being spent on weak or disabled offspring. Unwanted infants were usually abandoned to die of exposure, but in some societies they were deliberately killed.