‘And he arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.'
And Joseph did precisely as God had commanded. Note the repetition of the phraseology in order to bring out the point. They ‘came into the land of Israel'. God's will and purpose from the beginning was going forward through full obedience in the face of hardship.
2. THE KING WORSHIPPED BY GENTILES; Jerusalem in Ignorance of Him; the Child Persecuted. 1. The Visit of the Wise Men.(Matthew 2:1 .) 2. The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13 .) 3. The Return from Eg...
THE SETTLEMENT AT NAZARETH. By Herod's will Archelaus (p. 609) held the title of King till the Emperor Augustus forbade it. In Galilee, another of Herod's sons, Antipas (p. 609), was tetrarch. There i...
AND AROSE AND TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD. He obeyed as promptly as before, waiting obediently upon the Divine will. Come into the land of Israel. This included not only Judea, but Samaria, Galilee, and the...
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
When Herod died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. "Rise, he said, "and take the little child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For those who seek the...
THE RETURN FROM EGYPT...
VER 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 JUDAEA IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER HEROD, HE WAS AFRAID...
_THE CHRIST RETURNED OUT OF EGYPT MATTHEW 2:19-23:_ Joseph did just as God said. He stayed in Egypt until he had a word from God._ _ After the death of King Herod Joseph was told to take the child and...
ΈΓΕΡΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part., см._ Matthew 2:14. ΕΊΣΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) входить....
SECTION 4. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND RETURN TEXT: 2:13-23 13. Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his...
And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. AND HE AROSE, AND TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND CAME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL - intending, as is...
18 Compare Jer_31:15. 18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel, who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...
THE WISE MEN 1-12. The star in the east and the visit of the Magi (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident fits well into secular history. About the time when the star appeared (7 or 6 b.c.), Herod the...
RETURN TO PALESTINE. SETTLEMENT AT NAZARETH. It is implied that Joseph had settled at Bethlehem and intended to remain there as the most suitable place for bringing up the future Messiah. But God judg...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 WISE MEN VISIT JESUS 2:1-12 V1 Jesus was born in the town called Bethlehem. This was in Judea district. At this time, Herod was th...
CHAPTER 2 His Reception - Matthew 2:1 THIS one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the Infancy. St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little. This singular reticence h...
_Joseph's return_. Τελευτήσαντος δὲ τ. Ἡρ : Herod died in 750 U. C. in his 70th year, at Jericho, of a horrible loathsome disease, rotten in body as in soul, altogether an unwholesome man (_vide_ Jose...
_Flight to Egypt, massacre in Bethlehem, return to Nazareth_. These three stories have one aim. They indicate the omens which appear in beginnings _omina principiis inesse solent_ (Ovid). The fortunes...
“OUT OF EGYPT DID I CALL MY SON” Matthew 2:16-23 The death of those little children was very pathetic. From the first it seemed as though our Lord's advent would bring not peace, but the sword. Their...
The Kingdom was not ready for the King, so a reception for Him was not arranged and organized by those who should have been waiting for Him. They were in rebellion. The King's advent was heralded by a...
THE HOLY FAMILY RETURN FROM EGYPT 19-23, & Luke 2:39-40. _“And Herod having died.”_ We do not know how long they remained in Egypt, but evidently the period was brief. Scarcely has the wail of the sla...
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. The most interesting of all subjects, is to eye CHRIST as t...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the wi...
AND HE AROSE AND TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER,.... He exactly conformed in every circumstance to the orders given him, with respect to the persons he took, the place he went to, and the expedit...
And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. Ver. 21. _And he arose, &c., and came into the land of Israel_] Glad they were got out of such a hell as Egypt...
_And he arose_ Joseph obeyed the angel, and, it appears, would gladly have gone to Judea, probably to Bethlehem, because from his own knowledge of the prophecies, as well as from the decision of the s...
AND HE AROSE, AND TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND CAME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. But when he reached Judea, a new danger confronted him, causing his fears to be renewed:...
Joseph lost no time in obeying the command:...
The deeply interesting account of Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of her Lord, the details as to His birth in Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds to the manger in which H...
19-23 Egypt may serve to sojourn in, or take shelter in, for awhile, but not to abide in. Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, to them he must return. Did we but look upon the wo...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 2:22"....
Matthew 2:21 Then G1161 arose G1453 (G5685) took G3880 (G5627) Child G3813 and G2532 His G846 mother...
CHRONOLOGY. We place the flight into Egypt a _fter_ the presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-39). The latter took place on the fortieth day, and the interval which this allows is too brief for the ev...
Matthew 2:21. THE LAND OF ISRAEL included Galilee, but Judea would be reached first on the return....
Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,_ Probably from that Assyria which is joined with Is...
CONTENTS: Visit of the Magi, flight into Egypt, Herod's slaughter of the innocents. Return of Joseph and Mary to Nazareth. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Herod, chief priests, scribes, wise me...
Matthew 2:1. _Jesus was born in Bethlehem,_ as is illustrated in Micah 5:2. _In the days of Herod the king,_ the son of Antipater, and father of Archelaus, who succeeded him on the throne. Herod, who...
TOOK THE CHILD. WENT BACK. He immediately obeyed the Lord's will. TO ISRAEL. This included Judea, Samaria, Galilee, and the country beyond the Jordan. He would first reach Judea....
CHAPTER 2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of king Herod. It is better to read here in the Greek _in Bethlehem-Juda_. Juda means the tribe of Judah, to which, after the schism...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 2:22. ARCHELAUS.—Succeeded to Judæa, Samaria and Idumea, but Augustus refused him the title of king till it should be seen how he conducted himself, giving him only the title...
EXPOSITION JESUS THE CHRIST BY HIS EARLY HISTORY answering to the word of God by the prophets. This is shown by four particulars, for each of which a corresponding prophecy is adduced. (1) The place...
Chapter Two Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king (Matthew 2:1), This is Herod the Great, that little short monster. He was a little over four feet tall, and as...
Genesis 6:22; Hebrews 11:8...
Observe here, 1. The just fear that Joseph has upon his mind, that Herod's son would be as bloody. tyrant as his flagitious father. No wonder that the children of cruel persecutors are suspected to tr...