Bible Person
Meaning: watered by the dew · Female · 1 cross reference
Drusilla is the wife of Felix and a daughter of Herod Agrippa I. She belongs to the politically charged Herodian and Roman setting in which Paul gives his defense. First appears in Acts 24:24.1
AI summary: Drusilla matters because her single cross reference places Paul's witness before rulers within a morally compromised but historically concrete audience. Her presence sharpens the irony of Paul speaking about righteousness and judgment to a powerful couple marked by political entanglement. Taken together, the material presents Drusilla as a Herodian royal figure present at a key apostolic testimony.1
Central Figure
Drusilla
Meaning: watered by the dew
Third and youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I.
Partners
Third and youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:1-4, 20-23). Felix, the Roman procurator of Judea, induced her to leave her husband, Azizus, the king of Emesa, and become his wife. She was present with Felix when Paul reasoned of “righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come” (Acts 24:24). She and her son perished in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, A.D. 79. 3
| Book | Cross-References |
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.