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Herod slays male children

3 BC traditional (Jones)

Passage
Matt 2:16-18
Person
Herod
Place
Bethlehem
Before
Joseph and Mary Flee to Egypt
After
Joseph and Mary return from Egypt

Participants

Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.

Places

Where it happens. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Bethlehem

Every verse

All 3 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Matthew3 verses
  1. 2:16

    When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

  2. 2:17

    Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

  3. 2:18

    “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”