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, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
• John 7:42Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
• Luke 2:4–7Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
• Luke 2:11For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
• Ps 72:9–12Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
• Isa 11:10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
• Hag 2:6–9For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;
• Isa 60:1–22“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Gen 25:6but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
• Matt 2:5They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,
• Dan 9:24–25Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Luke 2:15When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
• Luke 1:5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
• 1 Kgs 4:30Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Matt 1:25and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.
• Matt 2:3When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
• Matt 2:19But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
• Gen 10:30Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
• Job 1:3His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

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