Matthew 2:21

New International Reader's Version

So Joseph got up. He took the child and his mother Mary back to the land of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 6:22

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Matthew 2:20

The angel said, “Get up! Take the child and his mother. Go to the land of Israel. The people who were trying to kill the child are dead.”

Matthew 2:22

But then he heard that Archelaus was king of Judea. Archelaus was ruling in place of his father Herod. This made Joseph afraid to go there. Joseph had been warned in a dream. So he went back to the land of Galilee instead.

Hebrews 11:8

Abraham had faith. So he obeyed God. God called him to go to a place he would later receive as his own. So he went. He did it even though he didn’t know where he was going.