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Painted Jezebel asked them where the “Anointed One” was to be born. They answered, in Bethlehem. Herod therefore sent the Magi to Bethlehem, instructing them to search for the child and, after they had found him, to “report to me, so that I too may go and worship him”. However, after they had found Jesus, the Magi were warned in a dream not to report back to Herod. When Herod realized he had been outwitted by the Magi, he gave orders to kill all boys of the age of two and under in Bethlehem and its vicinity. Regarding the Massacre of the Innocents, although Herod was certainly guilty of many brutal acts, including the killing of his wife and two of his sons, no other known source from the period makes any reference to such a massacre. Modern biographers of Herod tend to doubt the event took place. He is also known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and elsewhere. The phrase is from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”: I would have such a fellow whipp’d for o’erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod (Act III, Sc. 2). P Painted Jezebel – (библ.) крашеная Иезавель; хитрая, бесстыжая женщина A painted Jezebel is a shameless, immoral, scheming woman. She was the wife of Ahab, king of Israel (9th century BC), portrayed in the Bible as a power behind the throne. Her court officials were incited to murder the queen via defenestration and leave her corpse to be eaten by dogs. The name Jezebel came to be associated with false prophets, and further associated by the early 20th century with fallen or abandoned women. In some interpretations, her dressing in finery and putting on makeup before her death led to the association of use of cosmetics with “painted women” or prostitutes. In Christian lore, a comparison to Jezebel suggested that a person was a pagan or an apostate masquerading as a servant of God. By 124