Matthew 2:20

“Get up and take Mary and Jesus back to Israel country. The people that wanted to kill him are dead now.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.

In Context

19Some time later, Herod died. Then, in Egypt, Joseph had another dream. He heard God’s angel messenger say,

21So Joseph did what God’s angel messenger told him. He got up, and he got Mary and Jesus, and they started to go back to Israel country.

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:5You have to trust in God properly, you have to only trust in him. Don’t trust the things you know, you don’t know everything.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 2:20-23

Christ's Return from Egypt. 19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. 21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God… Read the whole commentary →

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