Matthew 2:13

Good News Translation

After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, “Herod will be looking for the child in order to kill him. So get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave.”

Cross References

1 Kings 11:17

except Hadad and some of his father's Edomite servants, who escaped to Egypt. (At that time Hadad was just a child.)

1 Kings 3:5

That night the Lord appeared to him in a dream and asked him, “What would you like me to give you?”

Job 33:15

At night when people are asleep, God speaks in dreams and visions.

Job 33:17

God speaks to make them stop their sinning and to save them from becoming proud.

Exodus 1:22

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: “Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live.”

Matthew 1:20

While he was thinking about this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary to be your wife. For it is by the Holy Spirit that she has conceived.

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 2:12

Then they returned to their country by another road, since God had warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod.

Matthew 2:14

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

Matthew 2:16

When Herod realized that the visitors from the East had tricked him, he was furious. He gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its neighborhood who were two years old and younger—this was done in accordance with what he had learned from the visitors about the time when the star had appeared.

Matthew 2:22

But when Joseph heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judea, he was afraid to go there. He was given more instructions in a dream, so he went to the province of Galilee

Acts 10:22

“Captain Cornelius sent us,” they answered. “He is a good man who worships God and is highly respected by all the Jewish people. An angel of God told him to invite you to his house, so that he could hear what you have to say.”

Acts 10:7

Then the angel went away, and Cornelius called two of his house servants and a soldier, a religious man who was one of his personal attendants.

Acts 12:11

Then Peter realized what had happened to him, and said, “Now I know that it is really true! The Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod's power and from everything the Jewish people expected to happen.”

Acts 12:7

Suddenly an angel of the Lord stood there, and a light shone in the cell. The angel shook Peter by the shoulder, woke him up, and said, “Hurry! Get up!” At once the chains fell off Peter's hands.

Acts 16:36

So the jailer told Paul, “The officials have sent an order for you and Silas to be released. You may leave, then, and go in peace.”

Acts 5:19

But that night an angel of the Lord opened the prison gates, led the apostles out, and said to them,

Acts 7:19

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.

Joshua 3:13

When the priests who carry the Covenant Box of the Lord of all the earth put their feet in the water, the Jordan will stop flowing, and the water coming downstream will pile up in one place.”

Joshua 3:17

While the people walked across on dry ground, the priests carrying the Lord's Covenant Box stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan until all the people had crossed over.

Joshua 4:10

The priests stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything had been done that the Lord ordered Joshua to tell the people to do. This is what Moses had commanded. The people hurried across the river.

Joshua 4:18

and when the priests reached the riverbank, the river began flowing once more and flooded its banks again.

Revelation 12:14

She was given the two wings of a large eagle in order to fly to her place in the desert, where she will be taken care of for three and a half years, safe from the dragon's attack.

Revelation 12:4

With his tail he dragged a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman, in order to eat her child as soon as it was born.

Revelation 12:6

The woman fled to the desert, to a place God had prepared for her, where she will be taken care of for 1,260 days.