Matthew 2:8

Legacy Standard Bible

And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that Yahweh might bring calamity on Absalom.

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by about this time tomorrow.”

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, there is no discernment And there is no counsel against Yahweh.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is there who speaks and it happens, Unless the Lord has commanded it?

Matthew 2:1

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,

Matthew 2:7

Then Herod secretly called the magi and carefully determined from them the time the star appeared.

Matthew 2:9

Now after hearing the king, they went their way; and behold, the star, which they had seen in the east, was going on before them until it came and stood over the place where the Child was.