Matthew 2:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently inquire after the child, and when you have found him, bring me word again, that I also may come to adore him.

Cross References

Lamentations 3:37

Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Proverbs 21:30

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

1 Kings 19:2

And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to-morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

2 Samuel 17:14

And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said: The counsel of Chusai the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel. And by the will of the Lord the profitable counsel of Achitophel was defeated, that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

Matthew 2:1

WHEN Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.

Matthew 2:7

Then Herod, privately calling the wise men, learned diligently of them the time of the star which appeared to them;

Matthew 2:9

Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which they had seen in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was.