Matthew 2:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the Wisemen, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slew all the male children that were in Beth-leem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeere old and vnder, according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the Wisemen.

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  • Judg 16:10 : 10 After Delilah saide vnto Samson, See, thou hast mocked mee and tolde mee lies. I pray thee nowe, tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.
  • Dan 3:13 : 13 Then Nebuchad-nezzar in his anger and wrath commaunded that they should bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: so these men were brought before the King.
  • Dan 3:19-20 : 19 Then was Nebuchad-nezzar full of rage, and the forme of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore hee charged and commaunded that they should heate the fornace at once seuen times more then it was wont to be heat. 20 And hee charged the most valiant men of warre that were in his armie, to binde Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the hote fierie fornace.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy munitions shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbell in the daie of battell: the mother with the children was dashed in pieces.
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I sawe ye woman drunken with the blood of Saintes, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesvs: and when I sawe her, I wondred with great marueile.
  • 2 Kgs 8:12 : 12 And Hazael sayde, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I knowe the euill that thou shalt do vnto the children of Israel: for their strong cities shalt thou set on fire, and their yong men shalt thou slay with the sworde, and shalt dash their infantes against the stones, and rent in pieces their women with child.
  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
  • Prov 27:3-4 : 3 A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both. 4 Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 A man that doeth violence against the blood of a person, shall flee vnto the graue, and they shall not stay him.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For lo, the Lord commeth out of his place, to visite the iniquitie of the inhabitants of the earth vpon them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more hide her slaine.
  • Gen 39:14 : 14 She called vnto the men of her house, and tolde them, saying, Beholde, he hath brought in an Ebrewe vnto vs to mocke vs: who came in to me for to haue slept with me: but I cryed with a loude voyce.
  • Gen 39:17 : 17 Then she tolde him according to these words, saying, The Ebrew seruat, which thou hast brought vnto vs, came in to me, to mocke me.
  • Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and their rage, for it was cruell: I will deuide them in Iaakob, and scatter them in Israel.
  • Num 22:29 : 29 And Balaam saide vnto the asse, Because thou hast mocked me: I woulde there were a sworde in mine hand, for nowe would I kill thee.
  • Num 24:10 : 10 Then Balak was very angry with Balaam, and smote his handes together: so Balak sayde vnto Balaam, I sent for thee to curse mine enemies, and beholde, thou hast blessed them nowe three times.

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    17Then was that fulfilled which is spoken by the Prophet Ieremias, saying,

    18In Rhama was a voyce heard, mourning, and weeping, and great howling: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not.

    19And whe Herod was dead, behold, an Angel of the Lorde appeareth in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypt,

    20Saying, Arise, and take the babe and his mother, and goe into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the babes life.

    21Then he arose vp and tooke the babe and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

    22But whe he heard that Archelaus did reigne in Iudea in stead of his father Herod, he was afraide to go thither: yet after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside into the parts of Galile,

  • Matt 2:1-15
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    1When Iesvs then was borne at Bethleem in Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the King, beholde, there came Wisemen from the East to Hierusalem,

    2Saying, Where is that King of the Iewes that is borne? For wee haue seene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him.

    3When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Hierusalem with him.

    4And gathering together all the chiefe Priestes and Scribes of the people, hee asked of them, where Christ should be borne.

    5And they saide vnto him, At Beth-leem in Iudea: for so it is written by the Prophet,

    6And thou Beth-leem in the lande of Iuda, art not the least among the Princes of Iuda: For out of thee shall come the gouernour that shall feede that my people Israel.

    7Then Herod priuily called the Wisemen, and diligently inquired of them the time of the starre that appeared,

    8And sent them to Beth-leem, saying, Goe, and searche diligently for the babe: and when ye haue founde him, bring mee worde againe, that I may come also, and worship him.

    9So when they had heard the King, they departed: and loe, the starre which they had seene in the East, went before them, till it came and stoode ouer the place where the babe was.

    10And when they sawe the starre, they reioyced with an exceeding great ioy,

    11And went into the house, and founde the babe with Mary his mother, and fell downe, and worshipped him, and opened their treasures, and presented vnto him giftes, euen golde, and frankincense, and myrrhe.

    12And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they should not go againe to Herod, ther returned into their countrey another way.

    13After their departture, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Ioseph in a dreame, saying, Arise, and take the babe & his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there til I bring thee word: for Herod will seeke the babe, to destroy him.

    14So he arose and tooke the babe and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

    15And was there vnto the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Out of Egypt haue I called my sonne.

  • Dan 2:12-13
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    12For this cause the king was angrie and in great furie, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babel.

    13And when sentence was giuen, the wise men were slayne: and they sought Daniel and his fellowes to be put to death.

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    1Nowe about that time, Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vexe certaine of the Church,

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

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    15And it came to passe whe the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, that the shepheards sayde one to another, Let vs goe then vnto Beth-leem, and see this thing that is come to passe which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs.

    16So they came with haste, and founde both Marie and Ioseph, & the babe laid in the cratch.

    17And when they had seene it, they published abroade the thing, that was tolde them of that childe.

    18And all that heard it, wondred at ye things which were tolde them of the shepheards.

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    6And the remnant tooke his seruants, and intreated them sharpely, and slewe them.

    7But when the King heard it, he was wroth, and sent foorth his warriers, and destroyed those murtherers, and burnt vp their citie.

  • 17Now therefore, slay all the males among the children, and kill all the women that haue knowen man by carnall copulation.

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    16And sayde, When ye doe the office of a midwife to the women of the Ebrewes, and see them on their stooles, if it be a sonne, then yee shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then let her liue.

    17Notwithstanding ye midwiues feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commaunded them, but preserued aliue the men children.

    18Then the King of Egypt called for the midwiues, and sayde vnto them, Why haue yee done thus, and haue preserued aliue the men children?

  • 19And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commaunded them to be led to be punished; he went downe from Iudea to Cesarea, and there abode.

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    6And so it was, that while they were there, the daies were accomplished that shee shoulde be deliuered,

    7And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laide him in a cratch, because there was no roome for them in the ynne.

    8And there were in the same countrey shepheards, abiding in the fielde, and keeping watch by night ouer their flocke.

  • Matt 14:5-6
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    5And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.

    6But when Herods birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunced before them, and pleased Herod.

  • 21Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

  • 12And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.

  • 15But when the chiefe priestes and Scribes sawe the marueiles that hee did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid, they disdained,

  • 20And the shepheardes returned glorifiyng and praising God, for all that they had heard and seene as it was spoken vnto them.

  • 20For Herod feared Iohn, knowing that hee was a iust man, and an holy, and reuerenced him, and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

  • 19The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and euill entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their yong children, that they should not remaine aliue.

  • 3Nowe therefore goe, and sinite Amalek, and destroy ye all that perteyneth vnto them, & haue no compassion on them, but slay both man and woman, both infant and suckling, both oxe, and sheepe, both camell, and asse.

  • 4Because they haue forsaken me, and prophaned this place, and haue burnt incense in it vnto other gods, whome neyther they, nor their fathers haue knowen, nor the Kings of Iudah (they haue filled this place also with the blood of innocents,

  • 27And immediately the King sent the hangman, and gaue charge that his head shoulde be brought in. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,