Acts 12:2
He killed Ya'akov the ach Yochanan with a cherev (sword).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
In Context
1Now during that time Herod the king laid his hands on Moshiachʼs Kehillah to harm some of them.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:1And Ach'av told Izevel all that Eliyahu had done, and how he had slain kol haNevi'im with the cherev.
Jeremiah 26:23And they brought Uriyah out of Mitzrayim, and brought him unto Y'hoyakim HaMelech; who slaughtered him with the cherev, and cast his nevelah (dead body) into the kevarim of the Bnei HaAm (common people).
Matthew 20:23Moshiach says to them, Indeed, you will drink my Kos, but to sit on the right and on the left of me, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my + 20:23 Moshiachʼs Av.
Mark 10:38But he said to them, You do not have daas of what you ask. Are you able to drink the kos which I drink or to undergo my mikveh? + 10:38 Job 38:2
Hebrews 11:37They were killed by seqilah (stoning), they were sawn in two, they were murdered by the cherev, they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being nitzrach (needy) and destitute, oppressed, under redifot (persecutions),
Matthew Henry on Acts 12:2-5
The Martyrdom of James; Peter's Imprisonment. 1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. Ever since the… Read the whole commentary →