Matthew 2:21

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

So he got up, took the young child and His mother and went [back] to the country of Israel.

Cross References

Matthew 2:20

“Get up, take the young child and His mother, and go [back] to the country of Israel, for those who had tried to take the young child’s life are [now] dead.”

Matthew 2:22

But when he heard that Archelaus was then the king of Judea, in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back. Then, being warned by God in a [supernatural] dream, he went on up to the region called Galilee,

Hebrews 11:8

By [having] faith, when Abraham was called [by God] to leave [his homeland] and go to a place he would later receive as an inheritance [i.e., Palestine], he obeyed God and went out, not knowing where he was going.