Matthew 2:13

New American Bible - revised edition

When they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.”

Cross References

1 Kings 11:17

But Hadad, with some Edomite servants of his father, fled toward Egypt. Hadad was then a young boy.

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said: Whatever you ask I shall give you.

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon mortals as they slumber in their beds.

Job 33:17

By turning mortals from acting and keeping pride away from a man,

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “Throw into the Nile every boy that is born, but you may let all the girls live.”

Matthew 1:20

Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her.

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 2:12

And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way. The Flight to Egypt.

Matthew 2:14

Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt.

Matthew 2:16

When Herod realized that he had been deceived by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had ascertained from the magi.

Matthew 2:22

But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go back there. And because he had been warned in a dream, he departed for the region of Galilee.

Acts 10:22

They answered, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear what you have to say.”

Acts 10:7

When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from his staff,

Acts 12:11

Then Peter recovered his senses and said, “Now I know for certain that [the] Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people had been expecting.”

Acts 12:7

Suddenly the angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and awakened him, saying, “Get up quickly.” The chains fell from his wrists.

Acts 16:36

The jailer reported the[se] words to Paul, “The magistrates have sent orders that you be released. Now, then, come out and go in peace.”

Acts 5:19

But during the night, the angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, led them out, and said,

Acts 7:19

He dealt shrewdly with our people and oppressed [our] ancestors by forcing them to expose their infants, that they might not survive.

Joshua 3:13

When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, touch the waters of the Jordan, it will cease to flow; the water flowing down from upstream will halt in a single heap.” The Crossing Begun.

Joshua 3:17

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ground in the Jordan riverbed while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until the whole nation had completed the crossing of the Jordan.

Joshua 4:10

The priests carrying the ark stood in the Jordan riverbed until everything had been done that the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people, just as Moses had commanded Joshua. The people crossed over quickly,

Joshua 4:18

and when the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up from the Jordan riverbed, as the soles of their feet regained the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan resumed their course and as before overflowed all its banks.

Revelation 12:14

But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where, far from the serpent, she was taken care of for a year, two years, and a half-year.

Revelation 12:4

Its tail swept away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman about to give birth, to devour her child when she gave birth.

Revelation 12:6

The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God, that there she might be taken care of for twelve hundred and sixty days.