Matthew 2:8

New English Translation

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.

1 Kings 19:2

Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, “May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!”

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

Lamentations 3:37

Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

Matthew 2:1

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

Matthew 2:7

Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.

Matthew 2:9

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.