Matthew 2:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Then Herode, when he sawe that he was mocked of the wyse men, was excedyng wroth, and sent foorth, and slew all the chyldren that were in Bethlehe, and in all the coastes, as many as were two yere olde, or vnder, according to the tyme, which he had diligently searched out, of the wyse men.

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  • Judg 16:10 : 10 And Dalila sayde vnto Samson: See, thou hast mocked me, and tolde me lies: Now therfore tell me wherwith thou myghtest be bounde.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feete runne to euyll, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their counsels are wicked counsels, harme and destruction are in their wayes.
  • Dan 3:13 : 13 Then Nabuchodonozor in his anger and wrath commaunded that Sidrach, Misach, & Abednego should be brought vnto hym: so these men were brought before the king.
  • Dan 3:19-20 : 19 Then was Nabuchodonozor full of indignation, so that the countenaunce of his face chaunged vpon Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: therefore he charged and commaunded that they should heate the fornace, one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat. 20 And he charged the most valiaunt men of warre that were in his armie, to bind Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the hot firie fornace.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 There shall growe a sedition among thy people, all thy strong cities shalbe layde waste, euen as Salma destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battayle, where the mother with the children were dasshed in peeces.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I sawe ye woman dronken with the blood of the martirs of Iesus: And when I sawe her, I wondred with great maruayle.
  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 And Hazael sayde: Why weepeth my lorde? He aunswered: For I knowe the euyl thinges that thou shalt do vnto the children of Israel: for their strong cities shalt thou set on fire, and their young men shalt thou slay with the sword, and shalt dashe out the braynes of their sucking children, and al to teare their women with childe.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.
  • Prov 27:3-4 : 3 The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both. 4 Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie?
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 He that by violence shedeth any mans blood, shalbe a runnagate vnto his graue, and no man shalbe able to succour hym.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For beholde, the Lorde is comming out of his place, to visite the wickednesse of suche as dwell vpon earth: the earth also shall disclose her bloods, and shall no more hide them that are slayne in her.
  • Gen 39:14 : 14 She called vnto the men of her house, and tolde them, saying: See, he hath brought in an Hebrue vnto vs, to do vs shame: for he came in to me to haue lyen with me, and I began to crie with a loude voyce:
  • Gen 39:17 : 17 And she tolde him with these wordes, saying: This Hebrue seruaunt whiche thou hast brought vnto vs, came vnto me to do me shame.
  • Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed be their wrath, for it was shamelesse, and their fiercenesse, for it was cruell: I wyll deuide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel.
  • Num 22:29 : 29 And Balaam sayd vnto the asse, Because thou hast mocked me: I would also there were a sworde in myne hande, for euen nowe woulde I kyll thee.
  • Num 24:10 : 10 And Balac was wroth with Balaam, and smote his handes together, and Balac said vnto Balaam: I sent for thee to curse mine enemies, and behold thou hast blessed them this three tymes.

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  • Matt 2:17-22
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    84%

    17 Then was fulfylled that, which was spoken by Ieremie the prophete, saying.

    18 In Rama was there a voyce hearde, lamentation, wepyng, & great mournyng, Rachel weping for her children, and woulde not be comforted, because they were not.

    19 But when Herode was dead, beholde, an Angel of the Lorde appeared to Ioseph in a dreame, in Egipt, saying.

    20 Aryse, and take the young chylde and his mother, and go into the lande of Israel. For they are dead, whiche sought the young chyldes lyfe.

    21 And he arose, & toke the young chylde and his mother, & came into the lande of Israel.

    22 But when he hearde, that Archelaus dyd reigne in Iurie in the rowme of his father Herode, he was afrayde to go thyther. Notwithstandyng, after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside, into the parties of Galilee,

  • Matt 2:1-15
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    79%

    1 When Iesus was borne in Bethlehem, a citie of Iurie, in the dayes of Herode the kyng: beholde, there came wise men from the east to Hierusalem,

    2 Saying: Where is he that is borne kyng of Iewes? For we haue seene his starre in the east, and are come to worship hym.

    3 When Herode the kyng had hearde these thynges, he was troubled, and all the citie of Hierusalem with hym.

    4 And when he hadde gathered all the chiefe Priestes and Scribes of the people together, he demaunded of them where Christe shoulde be borne.

    5 And they saide vnto him: At Bethlehem in Iurie. For thus it is written by the prophete.

    6 And thou Bethlehem in the lande of Iuda, art not the least among the princes of Iuda. For out of thee shall there come a capitain, that shal gouerne my people Israel.

    7 Then Herode, when he had priuilye called the wyse men, inquired of the diligently, what tyme the starre appeared.

    8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and sayde: Go, and search diligently for the young childe, and when ye haue founde hym, bryng me worde agayne, that I may come, and worship hym also.

    9 When they had hearde the kyng, they departed, and loe, the starre which they sawe in the east, went before them, tyl it came & stoode ouer the place wherin the young chylde was.

    10 When they sawe the starre, they reioyced excedyngly with great ioy.

    11 And went into the house, and founde the young chylde with Marie his mother, and fell downe, and worshypped hym, and opened their treasures, and presented vnto hym gyftes, golde, and frankensence, and mirre.

    12 And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they shoulde not go agayne to Herode, they returned into their owne countrey another way.

    13 When they were departed, beholde, the Angel of the Lord appeared to Ioseph in a dreame, saying: Aryse, & take the young chylde and his mother, and flee into Egipte, and be thou there, tyll I bryng thee worde. For it wyll come to passe, that Herode shall seke ye young chylde, to destroy hym.

    14 When he arose, he toke the young chylde and his mother, by nyght, and departed into Egipt.

    15 And was there, vnto the death of Herode, that it myght be fulfylled whiche was spoken of the Lorde, by the prophete, saying: Out of Egipte haue I called my sonne.

  • Dan 2:12-13
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    12 For the which cause the king was wroth with great indignation, & commaunded to destroy al the wise men at Babylon.

    13 So the decree went foorth, and the wise men were slayne: they sought also to slay Daniel, with his companions.

  • Acts 12:1-2
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    68%

    1 At the same tyme Herode the king stretched foorth his handes to vexe certayne of the Churche.

    2 And he killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sworde.

  • Luke 2:15-18
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    15 And it came to passe, assoone as the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, the sheepheardes said one to another: Let vs go nowe euen vnto Bethlehem, and see this thyng that is come to passe, whiche the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs.

    16 And they came with haste, and founde Marie and Ioseph, and the babe layde in a manger.

    17 And when they had seene it, they publisshed abrode the saying whiche was tolde them, of that childe.

    18 And all they that hearde it, wondred at those thinges which were tolde them of the sheepheardes.

  • Matt 22:6-7
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    6 And the remnaunt toke his seruauntes, and entreated them spitefully, and slewe them.

    7 But when the kyng hearde therof, he was wroth, and sent foorth his men of warre, and destroyed those murtherers and brent vp their citie.

  • 17 Nowe therfore, slay all the men children, and kyl the women that haue lien with men fleshly.

  • Exod 1:16-18
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    16 When ye do the office of a mydwyfe to the women of the Hebrues, and see in the birth tyme that it is a boy, ye shall kyl it: but if it be a daughter, it shal liue.

    17 Notwithstanding, the mydwifes feared God, and dyd not as the kyng of Egypt commaunded them, but saued the men chyldren.

    18 And the kyng of Egypt called for the mydwyfes, and sayde vnto them: why haue ye dealt on this maner, and haue saued the men chyldren?

  • 19 And when Herode had sought for hym, and founde hym not, he examined the kepers, and commaunded them to be caryed away. And he descended from Iurie to Cesarea, and there abode.

  • Luke 2:6-8
    3 verses
    67%

    6 And so it was, that whyle they were there, the dayes were accomplysshed, that she shoulde be deliuered.

    7 And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadlyng clothes, & layde hym in a manger, because there was no rowme for them in the Inne.

    8 There were in ye same countrey sheepheardes, abydyng in the fielde, & watchyng their flocke by nyght.

  • Matt 14:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5 And when he woulde haue put hym to death, he feared the people: because they counted hym as a prophete.

    6 But when Herodes birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunsed before them, and pleased Herode.

  • 21 Therfore, let their children dye of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sworde: Let their wiues be robbed of their children, and become widowes, let their husbandes be slayne, let their young men be kylled with the sworde in the fielde.

  • 12 And take this for a signe: Ye shal finde the childe wrapped in swadling clothes, and layde in a manger.

  • 15 When the chiefe priestes and scribes sawe the wonders that he dyd, and the chyldren crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid, they disdayned,

  • 20 And the sheepheardes returned, praysyng & laudyng God, for all the thinges that they had hearde and seene, euen as it was tolde vnto them.

  • 20 For Herode feared Iohn, knowyng that he was a iuste man and an holye, and gaue hym reuerence: and when he hearde hym, he dyd many thynges, and hearde hym gladly.

  • 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kinrede, and euyll intreated our fathers, & made them caste out their young chyldren, that they shoulde not remayne alyue.

  • 3 Nowe therfore go, and smyte Amalek, and destroye ye all that pertaineth vnto them, and haue no compassion on them, slay both man & woman, infant and suckling, oxe and sheepe, camel and asse.

  • 4 And that because they haue forsaken me, and vnhalowed this place, and haue offered in it vnto straunge gods, whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kynges of Iuda haue knowen: they haue filled this place also with the blood of innocentes.

  • 27 And immediatlye the kyng sent the hangman, and commaunded his head to be brought in: And he went, and beheaded hym in the pryson,