Acts 25:13 - Expostion

Now when certain days were passed for and after certain days, A.V. ; Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at for King Agrippa and Bernice came unto, A.V.; and saluted for to salute, A.V. and T.R. Agrippa the king . Herod Agrippa II ., son of Herod Agrippa I. ( Acts 12:1-25 .), and consequently brother of Drusilla ( Acts 24:24 ). He was only seventeen at his father's death, and so not considered by Claudius a safe person to entrust his father's large dominions to. But he gave him Chalets, and afterwards, in exchange for it, other dominions. It was he who made Ismael the son of Phabi high priest, and who built the palace at Jerusalem which overlooked the temple, and gave great offence to the Jews. He was the last of the Herods, and reigned above fifty years. Bernice was his sister, but was thought to be living in an incestuous intercourse with him. She had been the wife of her uncle Herod, Prince of Chalets; and on his death lived with her brother. She then for a while became the wife of Polemo, King of Cicilia, but soon returned to Herod Agrippa. She afterwards became the mistress of Vespasian and of Titus in succession (Alford). And saluted ; ἀσπασόμενοι , which reading Meyer and Alford both retain. The reading of the R.T. is ἀσπασάμενοι . It is quite in accordance with the position of a dependent king, that he should come and pay his respects to the new Roman governor at Caesarea.