Matthew 2:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then Herod secretly called for the magi and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared.

Cross References

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Exodus 1:10

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

Numbers 24:17

I see him but not now; I behold him but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the foreheads of Moab and the heads of all the Shethites.

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 2:16

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.

Matthew 2:8

Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.”

Acts 24:22

But Felix, who was rather well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing with the comment, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”

Revelation 12:15

Then from his mouth the serpent poured water like a river after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood.

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”