Matthew 2:8

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And sending them into Bethlehem, he said: "Go and diligently ask questions about the boy. And when you have found him, report back to me, so that I, too, may come and adore him."

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:14

And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, said: "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." So, by an act of the Lord, the useful counsel of Ahithophel was defeated, in order that the Lord might lead evil over Absalom.

1 Kings 19:2

And so Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "May the gods to these things, and may they add these other things, if by this hour tomorrow I will not have made your life like the life of one of them."

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel, which is against the Lord.

Lamentations 3:37

MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?

Matthew 2:1

And so, when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judah, in the days of king Herod, behold, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

Matthew 2:7

Then Herod, quietly calling the Magi, diligently learned from them the time when the star appeared to them.

Matthew 2:9

And when they had heard the king, they went away. And behold, the star that they had seen in the east went before them, even until, arriving, it stood still above the place where the child was.