ESV Reformation Study Bible – Acts 12:23
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Acts 12:23

12:23 did not give God the glory. In his pride, he accepted for himself the praise that belongs to God.

eaten by worms. The Jewish historian Josephus (Antiquities 19.346–350) records that Herod Agrippa I experienced heart pains together with pain in his abdomen and died after five days. Herod died in a.d. 44, the fourth year of Claudius Caesar.