Matthew 2:1

Jesus is born in Bethlehem, and wise men from the east come seeking him during Herod's reign. The nations begin to come to the newborn King.

Cross-references · 20

• Mic 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
• John 7:42Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
• Luke 2:4–7So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
• Luke 2:11Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!
• Ps 72:9–12May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
• Isa 11:10On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
• Hag 2:6–9For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
• Isa 60:1–22Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
• Gen 25:6But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
• Matt 2:5“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
• Dan 9:24–25Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Luke 2:15When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
• Luke 1:5In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
• 1 Kgs 4:30Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Matt 1:25But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.
• Matt 2:3When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
• Matt 2:19After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
• Gen 10:30Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
• Job 1:3and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

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