Verse 28 The damsel gave it to her mother. These were worthy descendants of a monster, who could order the execution of all the infants of a village, to secure the death of one Innocent babe. The story of the whole Herod faintly, for several generations, as given by contemporary writers, presents one continued scene of intrigue, cruelty, incest, adultery, and murder, to which the history of the world will scarce afford a parallel.