Matthew 2:1

New Messianic Version Bible

It came to pass when Yeshua [God is Salvation] was born in Beit-Lechem [house of bread] of Y’hudah [Praise] in the days of Herod [heroic] the king, behold Astronomers came from the East to Yerushalayim [abode of peace]

Cross References

Micah 5:2

But youi, Beit-Lechem [House of Bread] Ephrat [ash-heap: place of fruitfulness], [though] youi be little among the thousands of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], [yet] out of youi shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.

John 7:42

Has not the scripture said, That Moshiach [Messiah] comes of the seed of David [Beloved], and out of the town of Beit-Lechem [House of Bread], where David [Beloved] was?

Luke 2:11

For unto you is born this day in the city of David [Beloved] a Saviour, which is Moshiach [Messiah] the Lord - Kurios.

Isaiah 11:10

And in that day there shall be a root of Yishai [I possess], which shall stand for an flag (or banner; as of an army) of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his resting place shall be glorious.

Genesis 49:10

The sceptre shall not depart from Y’hudah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh [Place of Rest] come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be].

Matthew 2:5

They answered him: ‘In Beit-Lechem [house of bread] Y’hudah [Praise], as it is written by the Prophet according to Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]’:

Luke 2:15

And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Beit-Lechem [House of Bread], and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord - Kurios has made known unto us.

Luke 1:5

There was in the days of Herod [heroic], the king of Y’hudah [praised], a certain priest named Z’kharyah [remembered by Yehovah], of the course of Aviyah [Yah is my father]: and his wife [was] of the daughters of Aharon [Bright, Very High], and her name [was] Elisheva [the oath of God].

1 Kings 4:30

And Shlomo’s (Solomon) [peace] wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

Genesis 25:6

But unto the sons of the concubines, which Avraham [exalted father/Fly They Will] had, Avraham [exalted father/Fly They Will] gave gifts, and sent them away from Yitz’chak [Laughter] his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

Matthew 2:19

It came to pass when King Herod [heroic] died; the angel of Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] appeared in a dream to Yosef [he will add] in Mitzrayim (Egypt) [the black land]

Matthew 2:3

Herod [heroic] the king heard and was dismayed and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [abode of peace] with him.

Genesis 10:30

And their dwelling was from Mesha [deliverance] (Retreat; also: to feel, as in touch and recognize), as youi go unto S’far (Counting or Calculating) to the mount in the east.

Job 1:3

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

Genesis 41:8

And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Mitzrayim [Egypt], and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

Judges 17:7

And there was a young man out of Beit-Lechem [House of Bread] in Y’hudah of the family of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], who [was] a Levi (Levite) [Joined to], and he detained (held) there.

Matthew 2:7

Then King Herod [heroic] called the Astronomers in secret and asked them thoroughly concerning the time the star appeared to them.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod [heroic] saw that the Astronomers had outwitted him and was very displeased. Being grieved at heart, he commanded that word be sent to all his princes to kill all the male children who were in Beit-Lechem [house of bread] and its borders who had been born from the time when the star appeared, which he had determined when the Astronomers spoke to him concerning the birth of the Boy.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Beit-Lechem [House of Bread], Haref [a plucking off] the father of Beit-Gader [house of the wall].