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Title:#1 B
Name:Jim
City: Murfreesboro,TnState: USA
"He [Herod] was the Roman appointed king of ISRAEL there was no Holyland or Palestine...just Israel " ...

... which, itself, was part of the Roman Proconsulate of Syria. And Proconsul Quirinius was his boss (in 4 BC)

But since B wants to be so picky, let`s do it right. There was no Israel, either, only Iudaea (Judea).