²⁰ Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon [^Cmajor cities on the Phoenician coast north of Israel], but the people of those cities all ·came in a group [or agreed together to come] to him. After convincing Blastus, the ·king’s personal servant [chamberlain; ^Lone in charge of his bedroom], to ·be on their side [or support their position], they asked Herod for peace, because their country got its food from his country.