Matthew 2:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Then Herod perceauynge yt he was disceaued of the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth, and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem, and in all the coastes there of, as many as were two yere olde and vnder, accordynge to the tyme which he had diligently searched out of the wyse men.

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  • Judg 16:10 : 10 Then sayde Dalila vnto Samson: beholde, thou hast begyled me & dyssembled with me: tell me yet, wherwithall mayest thou be bounde?
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their fete runne to euell, & they make haist to shed innocet bloude. Their coucels are wicked coucels, harme & destruccio are in their wayes.
  • Dan 3:13 : 13 Then Nabuchodonosor in a cruell wrath and displeasure, commaunded, yt Sidrac, Misac & Abdenago shulde be brought vnto him. So these men were brought before the kynge.
  • Dan 3:19-20 : 19 Then was Nabuchodonosor full off indignacion, so that ye countenaunce of his face chaunged vpo Sidrac, Misac & Abdenago. Therfore he charched and commaunded, that the ouen shulde be made seuen tymes hoter, then it was wote to be: 20 and spake vnto the strongest worthies that were in his hooste, for to bynde Sidrac, Misac and Abdenago, and to cast them in to the hote burnynge ouen.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 there shal growe a sedicion amonge thy people. All yi stroge cities shalbe layed waist, euen as Salmana was destroyed with his familiers, thorow him that was auenged of Baal, in the daye of batel, where ye mother perished with hir childre.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I sawe the wyfe dronke with the bloude of sayntes, and with the bloud of the witnesses of Iesu. And when I sawe her, I wondred with greate mervayle.
  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 The sayde Hasael: Wherfore wepeth my lorde? He sayde: I knowe what euell thou shalt do vnto the children of Israel. Thou shalt burne their stronge cities with fyre, and slaye their yonge men with the swerde, and kyll their yonge children, and ryppe vp their wemen with childe.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 Thus he that calleth vpo God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neghboure: the godly & innocent man is laughed to scorne.
  • Prov 27:3-4 : 3 The stone is heuy, and the sonde weightie: but a fooles wrath is heuyer then they both. 4 Wrath is a cruell thige, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: yee who is able to abyde envye?
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 Like as a roaringe lyon and an hongrie beer, euen so is an vngodly prynce ouer the poore people.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 He that by violece sheddeth eny mans bloude, shal be a rennagate vnto his graue, and no man shal be able to sucor him.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For beholde, the LORDE wil go out of his habitacion, & vyset the wickednes of the that dwell vpon earth. He wil discouer the bloude that she hath deuoured, she shal neuer hyde the, that she hath murthured.
  • Gen 39:14 : 14 she called the folkes in the house, and sayde vnto the: Lo, he hath brought vs in the Hebrue, to do vs shame. He came in here vnto me, to slepe by me: but I cried with loude voyce.
  • Gen 39:17 : 17 and tolde him euen the same wordes, and sayde: The Hebrue seruaunt whom thou broughtest here vnto vs, came in here to me, for to do me shame.
  • Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed be their wrath, because it is so fearce: and their indignacion, because it is so rigorous. I wil deuyde them in Iacob, and scater them in Israel
  • Num 22:29 : 29 Balaam sayde vnto ye Asse: Because thou hast mocked me. Oh yt I had a swerde now in my hande, I wolde kyll the.
  • Num 24:10 : 10 The was Balac furious i wrath against Balaam, & smote his hades together, & sayde vnto him: I haue called the, yt thou shuldest curse myne enemies, and beholde, thou hast blessed the now thre tymes:

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    17 Then was yt fulfilled which was spoken by ye Prophet Ieremy sayinge:

    18 On ye hilles was a voyce herde, greate mournynge, wepynge, & lamentacion: Rachel wepynge for her chyldren, and wolde not be conforted, because they were not.

    19 When Herode was deed: beholde, an angell of the LORDE appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte,

    20 sayinge: arise and take the chylde and his mother, & go into ye londe of Israel. For they are deed, which sought the chyldes life.

    21 And he arose vp, and toke ye chylde and his mother, & came into the londe of Israel.

    22 But whe he herde that Archelaus did raygne in Iury, in ye rowme of his father Herode, he was afrayde to go thither. Notwithstondinge after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned asyde into the parties of Galile,

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    1 When Iesus was borne at Bethlee in Iury, in the tyme of Herode the kynge, Beholde, there came wyse men from the east to Ierusale,

    2 saynge: Where is the new borne kynge of the Iues? We haue sene his starre in the east, and are come to worship him.

    3 When Herode ye kynge had herde thys, he was troubled, & all Ierusale with hym,

    4 and he gathered all the hye Prestes and Scribes of ye people, & axed of them, where Christ shulde be borne.

    5 And they sayde vnto hym: at Bethleem in Iury. For thus it is written by the Prophet:

    6 And thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury, art not the leest amonge the Princes of Iuda. For out of ye shall come vnto me the captayne, that shall gouerne my people Israel.

    7 Then Herod preuely called the wyse men, and dyligently enquyred of them, what tyme the starre appered,

    8 and sent them to Bethleem, sainge: Go, and searche dyligently for the chylde. And when ye haue founde hym, bringe me worde agayne, that I maye come and worshippe hym also.

    9 When they had heard the kynge, they departed: and lo, the starre which they sawe in the east, went before them, tyll it came, and stode ouer the place where the chylde was.

    10 When they sawe the starre, they were maruelously glad:

    11 and went into the house, and found the chylde with Mary his mother, and kneled downe and worshipped hym, & opened ther treasures, and offred vnto hym gyftes: gold, franckynsence and myrre.

    12 And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they shuld not go ageine to Herod, they returned into their awne countre another waye.

    13 When they were departed: beholde, the angell of the LORDE appered to Ioseph in a dreame, sayinge: aryse, and take the chylde and his mother, and flye into Egypte, and abyde there tyll I brynge the worde. For Herod wyl seke the chylde to destroye hym.

    14 The he arose, and toke the chylde and his mother by night, and departed into Egypte,

    15 and was there vnto ye deeth of Herod, that the thinge might be fulfylled which was spoke of the LORDE, by the Prophet, which sayeth: out of Egypte haue I called my sonne.

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    13 and ye proclamacion wete forth, that the wyse me shulde be slayne. They sought also to slaye Daniel with his copanyons.

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    1 At the same tyme layed kynge Herode handes vpon certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.

    2 As for Iames the brother of Ihon, him he slewe with the swerde.

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    15 And it fortuned wha the angels were gone from the in to heaue, the shepherdes sayde one to another: let vs go now euen vnto Bethleem, and se this thinge that is happened, which ye LORDE hath shewed vnto vs.

    16 And they came wt haist, & founde both Mary and Ioseph, & the babe layed in ye maunger.

    17 And whan they had sene it, they published abrode the sayenge, yt was tolde the of this childe.

    18 And all they that herde it, wondred at the wordes, which the shepherdes had tolde them.

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    6 As for the remnaut, they toke his seruauntes, and intreated the shamefully, and slew the.

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  • 17 Now therfore slaie all the males amoge ye childre, & kyll all ye wemen yt haue knowne men & lyen wt them.

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    16 Whan ye helpe the wemen of the Hebrues, and se vpon the stole, that it is a sonne, then slaye him: but yf it be a doughter, let her lyue.

    17 Neuertheles the mydwyues feared God, & dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaunded them, but let the children lyue.

    18 Then the kynge of Egipte called the mydwyues, and sayde vnto them: Wherfore do ye this, that ye let the children lyue?

  • 19 Whan Herode had called for him, and founde him not, he caused the kepers to be examyned, and commaunded the to be caried awaye, and he wente downe fro Iewry vnto Cesarea, and there abode.

  • Luke 2:6-8
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    6 And it fortuned whyle they were there, ye tyme was come, that she shulde be delyuered.

    7 And she brought forth hir first begotte sonne, & wrapped him in swadlinge clothes, and layed him in a maunger: for they had els no rowme in the ynne.

    8 And there were in ye same region shepherdes in the felde by the foldes, and watchinge their flocke by night.

  • Matt 14:5-6
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    5 And fayne wolde he haue put him to death, but he feared the people, because they helde him for a Prophet.

    6 But whan Herode helde his byrth daye, the doughter of Herodias daunsed before the, and that pleased Herode well,

  • 21 Therfore let their childre dye of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the swearde. Let their wyues be robbed of their childre, and become wyddowes: let their hu?bodes be slayne, let their yonge men be kylled with the swearde in the felde.

  • 12 And take this for a token: Ye shal fynde the babe swadled, and layed in a maunger.

  • 15 But whan the hye prestes and the scrybes sawe the wonders that he dyd, and the children crienge in the temple and sayenge: Hosianna vnto the sonne of Dauid, they disdayned,

  • 20 And the shepherdes returned, praysinge and laudinge God, for all that they had herde and sene, euen as it was tolde them.

  • 20 Notwithstodinge Herode feared Iho, for he knew that he was a iust and holy man: and he kepte him, and herkened vnto him in many thinges, and herde him gladly.

  • 19 The same dealte suttely wt oure kynred, and intreated oure fathers euell and made them to cast out the yonge children, that they shulde not remayne alyue.

  • 3 Go yi waye now therfore, and smyte the Amalechites, & damne them with all that they haue, & spare him not: but slaye both man and woman, children & sucklynges, oxen & shepe, Camels and asses.

  • 4 And that because they haue forsake me, and vnhalowed this place, and haue offred in it vnto straunge goddes: who nether they, their fathers, ner the kinges off Iuda haue knowne. They haue filled this place also wt the bloude of innocentes,

  • 27 And immediatly he sent the hangman, and commaunded his heade to be brought in. So he wete, and heeded him in the preson,