Acts 12:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When Herod had searched for him and could not find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:43

The king of Israel set out toward home, resentful and sullen, and came to Samaria.

Esther 6:12

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the secretary Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them.

Matthew 2:1

In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the east came to Jerusalem,

Matthew 2:13

Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.

Acts 12:18

When morning came, there was no small commotion among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

Acts 12:4

When he had seized him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Acts 12:6

The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.

Acts 16:27

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped.

Acts 21:8

The next day we left and came to Caesarea, and we went into the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven, and stayed with him.

Acts 25:13

After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus.

Acts 27:42

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none might swim away and escape;

Acts 8:40

But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he was passing through the region he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

1 Samuel 23:14

David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but the Lord did not give him into his hand.