2), and in the Targums of Jonathan and of Jerusalem (_Numb._ xxii.
35).] [Footnote 2: Now Mkaur, in the wady Zerka Main.

This place has not been visited since Seetzen was there.] [Footnote 3: Josephus, _De Bell.

Jud._, VII.vi.1, and following.] [Footnote 4: Jos., _Ant._, XVIII.v.

1.] The almost incestuous[1] union of Antipas and Herodias then took place.

The Jewish laws on marriage were a constant rock of offence between the irreligious family of the Herods and the strict Jews.[2] The members of this numerous and rather isolated dynasty being obliged to marry amongst themselves, frequent violations of the limits prescribed by the Law necessarily took place.