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BERNICE

Eldest daughter of Herod Agrippa I. Bernice was present during the apostle Paul’s speech before her brother King Agrippa II (Acts 25:13, 23 OET ACT 25:13 · OET ACT 25:23; 26:30). Bernice (also spelled Berenice) was born around AD 28. At 13 she married Marcus, son of the Jewish official Alexander. After her husband’s death, her father betrothed her to his elder brother, Herod of Chalcis. Two sons, Bernicianus and Hyrcanus, were born to them before her second husband’s death in AD 48. When the young widow’s relationship with her brother, Agrippa II, deepened, there were rumors of incest. In defense, Bernice persuaded Polemo, king of Cilicia, to marry her. But she left him shortly afterward.

Show passage in OET: ACT 25:13; ACT 25:23

OET-RV ACT 25:13

13 Several days later, King Agrippas and his sister Bernike arrived in Kaisareia to meet Festos.

OET-RV ACT 25:23

23 So the next day, King Agrippas and Bernike formally arrived with all their attendants and entered the auditorium to greet the commanders and the prominent men of the city, and then Festos ordered for Paulos to be brought in.

OET-LV ACT 25:13

13 And some days having_elapsed, Agrippas the king and Bernikaʸ arrived to Kaisareia, having_greeted the Faʸstos.

OET-LV ACT 25:23

23 Therefore on_the day of_next, the Agrippas and the Bernikaʸ having_come with great pageantry, and having_come_in into the auditorium with both commanders and men which in prominence in_the city, and having_commanded the Faʸstos, the Paulos was_brought.
Show passage in OET: ACT 26:30

OET-RV ACT 26:30

30 Then the king and the governor both stood, along with Bernike and the others sitting with them

OET-LV ACT 26:30

30 both the king and the governor Stood_up, the both Bernikaʸ and the ones sitting_with with_them,

Jump to OET ACT 25:13 section. · OET ACT 25:23 section.

Jump to OET ACT 26:30 section.

In AD 66 Bernice bravely but unsuccessfully appealed to the mad Roman procurator Gessius Florus not to ransack the temple in Jerusalem. She was at her brother’s side when he warned the people against war. When war broke out that year, Jewish rebels set fire to her palace as well as to her brother’s.