Matthew 2:16

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

For this cause, too, He suddenly removed those children belonging to the house of David, whose happy lot it was to have been born at that time, that He might send them on before into His kingdom; He, since He was Himself an infant, so arranging it that human infants should be martyrs, slain, according to the Scriptures, for the sake of Christ, who was born in Bethlehem of Judah, in the city of David.[283]

Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul

while the other, by being slaughtered, for His sake of course, knew what violence meant.[156]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

and here, at the time of the birth of Jesus, every male among the Jews suddenly perished by reason of the treachery of Herod.[529]

Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle

Hence the bloodthirsty "Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth," he says, "and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coast thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had diligently inquired of the wise men."[57]

The Protevangelium of James

And when Herod knew that he had been mocked by the Magi, in a rage he sent murderers, saying to them: Slay the children[52]

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew

But when he could not find them at all; he sent anew to Bethlehem and all its borders, and slew all the male children whom he found of two years old and under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the magi.[46]

Word and Revelation of Esdras

And I said to the angels: Who is this? and what is his sin? And they said to me: This is Herod, who for a time was a king, and ordered to put to death the children from two years old and under.[20]