45:1
Aristobulus, the young high priest from the Hasmonean house, wins admiration from the people.
45:2
Herod fears that popularity and arranges circumstances leading to his drowning during recreation.
45:3
Miryamne and her mother understand the death as deliberate.
45:4
The killing deepens the fracture between Herod and the Hasmonean family into which he married.