Luke describes in Acts 12, and Flavious Josephus describes in Antiquities of the Jews 19.8.2, the scene and speech where Herod Agrippa I wears a shiny outfit, is proclaimed as god by the crowd, falls ill, and dies.
Herod Agrippa’s Shiny Silver Shirt
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