Caesar did also afterward bestow it on Herod, that it might not again become a receptacle for those robbers that had come against Damascus.

He also made him a procurator of all Syria, and this on the tenth year afterward, when he came again into that province; and this was so established, that the other procurators could not do any thing in the administration without his advice: but when Zenodorus was dead, Caesar bestowed on him all that land which lay between Trachonitis and Galilee.
Yet, what was still of more consequence to Herod, he was beloved by Caesar next after Agrippa, and by Agrippa next after Caesar; whence he arrived at a very great degree of felicity.

Yet did the greatness of his soul exceed it, and the main part of his magnanimity was extended to the promotion of piety..