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Tyre and Sidon; these were two coast towns in Phoenicia, famous, especially the former, for their great trading; and being rich, might be insolent, or possibly might tempt Herod to a war against them, whose conquest would pay the charge of it.
The king’s chamberlain, or chief of his bed chamber.
Desired peace, or begged pardon; there being no war yet begun.
Their country was nourished by the king’s country; these cities lying upon the sea, had little land belonging to them, and of old were forced to have their provision from other places, especially from Judea; thus Solomon gave Hiram, king of Tyre, twenty thousand measures of wheat for his household, and twenty measures of pure oil yearly, 1Ki_5:9,11; and long after that, they of Judah and Israel are said to have traded with their wheat in Tyre, Eze_27:17.