On the appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat on the platform and delivered an address to them.
In context
19Herod searched for him and did not find him; he interrogated the guards and ordered them led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. 20He was furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came to him with one accord and, having won over Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s territory for its food. 21On the appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat on the platform and delivered an address to them. 22The people shouted back, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man!” 23At once an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he had not given the glory to God; he was eaten by worms and died.
