After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Herod's Death -

When Herod had sought for him, and did not find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea ...

It is not fair for the soldiers to lose their lives because God sent an angel to free a prisoner. That doesn't mean God is responsible for the guards' deaths.

After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Herod's Death -

When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea ...

19 But when Herod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea ...

19 When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to ...

(19) Commanded that they should be put to death.—Literally, that they should be led away—i.e., to execution. The phrase was half-technical, half-euphemistic.

You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? Now the hand of the Lord is against you. You are ...

19 Herod Agrippa ordered a thorough search for him. When he couldn't be found, Herod interrogated the guards and sentenced them to death. Afterward Herod left ...