Matthew 2:13

God's Word

After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. The angel said to him, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and kill him.”

Cross References

1 Kings 11:17

Hadad was a young boy at the time. He and some of his father’s Edomite servants fled to Egypt.

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. He said, “What can I give you?”

Job 33:15

In a dream, a prophetic vision at night, when people fall into a deep sleep, when they sleep on their beds,

Job 33:17

⌞He warns them⌟ to turn away from doing ⌞wrong⌟ and to stop being arrogant.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people to throw into the Nile every ⌞Hebrew⌟ boy that was born, but to let every girl live.

Matthew 1:20

Joseph had this in mind when an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. The angel said to him, “Joseph, descendant of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife. She is pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 10:23

So when they persecute you in one city, flee to another. I can guarantee this truth: Before you have gone through every city in Israel, the Son of Man will come.

Matthew 2:12

God warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod. So they left for their country by another road.

Matthew 2:14

Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and left for Egypt that night.

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that the wise men had tricked him, he became furious. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys two years old and younger in or near Bethlehem. This matched the exact time he had learned from the wise men.

Matthew 2:22

But when he heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judea, Joseph was afraid to go there. Warned in a dream, he left for Galilee

Acts 10:22

The men replied, “Cornelius, a Roman army officer, sent us. He’s a man who has God’s approval and who respects God. Also, the Jewish people respect him. A holy angel told him to summon you to his home to hear what you have to say.”

Acts 10:7

After saying this, the angel left. Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier, one of those who served him regularly.

Acts 12:11

When Peter came to his senses, he said, “Now I’m sure that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod and from everything the Jewish people are expecting to happen to me.”

Acts 12:7

Suddenly, an angel from the Lord stood near Peter, and his cell was filled with light. The angel nudged Peter’s side, woke him up, and said, “Hurry! Get up!” At that moment the chains fell from Peter’s hands.

Acts 16:36

The jailer reported this order to Paul by saying, “The officials have sent word to release you. So you can leave peacefully now.”

Acts 5:19

But at night an angel from the Lord opened the doors to their cell and led them out of the prison.

Acts 7:19

This king was shrewd in the way he took advantage of our people. He mistreated our ancestors. He made them abandon their newborn babies outdoors, where they would die.

Joshua 3:13

The priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, will stand in the water of the Jordan. Then the water flowing from upstream will stop and stand up like a dam.”

Joshua 3:17

The priests who carried the ark of the Lord’s promise stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan until the whole nation of Israel had crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.

Joshua 4:10

The priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan. They stood there until everything the Lord had ordered Joshua to tell the people had been carried out. This was as Moses had told Joshua. The people hurried to the other side.

Joshua 4:18

The priests who carried the ark of the Lord’s promise came out of the middle of the Jordan. When their feet stepped onto dry land, the water of the Jordan returned to its seasonal flood level.

Revelation 12:14

The woman was given the two wings of the large eagle in order to fly away from the snake to her place in the wilderness, where she could be taken care of for a time, times, and half a time.

Revelation 12:4

Its tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky and threw them down to earth. The serpent stood in front of the woman who was going to give birth so that it could devour her child when it was born.

Revelation 12:6

Then the woman fled into the wilderness where God had prepared a place for her so that she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.