Matthew 2:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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  • Exod 1:10 : 10 Come on, let vs deale wyttyly with the, lest they multiplie, & lest it come to passe, that if there be any warre, they ioyne them selues vnto our enemies, & fight agaynst vs, & so get them vp out of ye land.
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 And Saul sayde: I will geue him her that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul sayde to Dauid: Thou shalt this day be my sonne in lawe in the one of the twayne.
  • Ps 10:9-9 : 9 He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net. 10 He croucheth and humbleth him selfe: so that a number of the that be weake, fall by his myght.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.
  • Ps 64:4-6 : 4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not. 5 They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them? 6 They searche out howe to do wrong, they put in practise fully that they haue diligently searched out: yea euen the secretes and bottome of euery one of their heartes.
  • Ps 83:3-4 : 3 They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest. 4 They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce.
  • Isa 7:5-7 : 5 Because that the Syrian, Ephraim, and Romelies sonne haue wickedly conspired against thee, 6 Saying, we wyll go vp against Iuda, vexe them, and bryng them vnder vs, and set a kyng there, euen the sonne of Tabel: 7 Thus saith the Lorde God thereto, It shal not so go foorth, neither so come to passe.
  • Ezek 38:10-11 : 10 Moreouer, thus sayth the Lorde God: At the same time shall thinges come into thy minde, so that thou shalt thinke euyll thoughtes. 11 And say, I will vp to the lande of vnwalled villages, I will go to them that be at rest, whiche dwell safely, all dwelling without walles, they haue neither barres nor gates:
  • Matt 26:3-5 : 3 Then assembled together the chiefe priestes, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, vnto the palace of the hye prieste, which was called Caiaphas: 4 And helde a councell, that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kyll hym. 5 But they sayde: Not on the feast day lest there be an vprore among ye people.
  • Rev 12:1-5 : 1 And there appeared a great wonder in heauen: A woman clothed with the sunne, & the moone vnder her feete, and vpo her head a crowne of twelue starres: 2 And she was with chylde, and cryed, trauaylyng in birth, and payned redy to be delyuered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heauen, for beholde, a great redde dragon, hauing seuen heades, and tenne hornes, and seuen crownes vpon his heades. 4 And his tayle drue the thirde part of the starres of heauen, and cast them to the earth: And the dragon stoode before the woman which was redie to be deliuered, for to deuoure her chylde assoone as it were borne. 5 And she brought foorth a man chylde, which shoulde rule all nations with a rodde of yron: And her sonne was taken vp vnto God, and to his throne.
  • Rev 12:15 : 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had ben a fludde, that he myght cause her to be caryed away of the fludde.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 2:1-6
    6 verses
    85%

    1When 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,

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

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

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

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

    6And 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.

  • Matt 2:8-17
    10 verses
    84%

    8And 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.

    9When 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.

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

    11And 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.

    12And 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.

    13When 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.

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

    15And 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.

    16Then 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.

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

  • Matt 2:19-22
    4 verses
    73%

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

    20Aryse, 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.

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

    22But 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,

  • Luke 23:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7And assoone as he knewe that he belonged vnto Herodes iurisdiction, he sent hym to Herode, whiche was also at Hierusalem at that tyme.

    8And when Herode sawe Iesus, he was exceeding glad: For he was desirous to see hym of a long season, because he had hearde many thinges of hym, and he trusted to haue seene some miracle done by hym.

    9Then he questioned with hym many wordes: But he aunswered hym nothing.

  • Luke 2:15-18
    4 verses
    72%

    15And 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.

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

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

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

  • Matt 14:1
    70%

    1At that tyme Herode the Tetrarch, hearde of the fame of Iesu.

  • Dan 5:15
    70%

    15Now haue there ben brought before me wyse men and soothsayers to reade this wryting, and to shewe me the interpretation therof: but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing.

  • Luke 2:6-9
    4 verses
    69%

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

    7And 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.

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

    9And loe, the Angel of the Lorde stoode harde by them, and the glorie of the Lorde shone rounde about them, & they were sore afrayde.

  • Esth 1:13
    69%

    13And the king spake to the wyse men which knewe the times (for so was the kinges maner towardes all that knewe the lawe and the iudgementes:

  • Acts 12:19
    68%

    19And 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.

  • Acts 12:1
    68%

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

  • Mark 6:20-21
    2 verses
    68%

    20For 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.

    21And whe a conuenient day was come, that Herode on his birth daye made a supper to the lordes, hye captaynes, and chiefe estates of Galilee.

  • Luke 2:20
    68%

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

  • Luke 9:9
    68%

    9And Herode sayde, Iohn haue I beheaded, but who is this of who I heare such thinges? And he desired to see him.

  • Dan 4:6
    67%

    6Therfore made I a decree, that they shoulde bring all the wyse men of Babylon before me, that they might declare vnto me the interpretatio of the dreame.

  • Dan 2:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2Then the king commaunded to cal the wise men, and soothsayers, & sorcerers, and the Chaldees, for to shew the king his dreame: So they came, & stoode before the king.

    3And the king sayde vnto them: I haue dreamed a dreame, and my spirite was troubled to knowe the dreame.

  • Luke 2:12
    67%

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

  • Luke 9:7
    67%

    7And Herode the tetrarche heard of all that was done by hym, and doubted, because that it was sayde of some, that Iohn was rysen agayne from death:

  • Acts 12:21
    66%

    21And vpon a day appoynted, Herode arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oration vnto them.

  • Matt 1:19
    66%

    19Then Ioseph her husbande, beyng a ryghteous man, and not wyllyng to make her a publique example, was mynded priuily to put her away.

  • Dan 2:13
    66%

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