If this is talking about King Herod dying in Matthew after his massacre of male babies/toddlers in Judaea but appears later on to have John the Baptist executed, I'd like to point out the practice of names being passed down through dynasties. Detractors = modern day Sadducees who claim to be "experts" about scriptural issues but really aren't as they try to push for secularization by trying to look through a book without error with a fine-toothed comb to find something to lie about and spin.
@Potion_Time - Re: Herod, yes,
The Jewish War by Josephus opens with a biographical account of King Herod's life, and what is known about him lines up with the account of his life in the New Testament - paranoid and jealous man prone to violent outbursts. Incidentally, I've seen some atheist Jews revile Christians and deny Jesus's existence in the process.