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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 2:19-23

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 judged that the despised Galilee was a better training school for the future Saviour of the world.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HEROD WAS DEAD - See the notes at Matthew 2:15. Herod left three sons, and the kingdom was at his death divided between them. To Archelaus was given Judea, Idumea, and Samaria; to Philip, Batanea and...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    III. THE RETURN TO NAZARETH. 19. BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD. This event was the signal for the return to Judea. He died in the spring of the year 750, after the building of Rome, just before the passove...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE RETURN FROM EGYPT...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD— It will be worth the reader's while to peruse the particular and affecting account which Josephus has given of the dreadful death of this inhuman tyrant, whom God so remarkabl...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD - Miserable Herod! Thou thoughtest thyself safe from a dreaded Rival; but it...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (3) But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, (3) Christ is brought up in Nazareth, after the death of the tyrant by God's providence: that by the...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, Reader! pause over this verse, and contemplate the awful death of this man. Ah Herod! is this the termina...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19._But when Herod was dead _These words show the perseverance of Joseph’s faith. He kept his feet firm in Egypt, till he was recalled to his native country by a command of God. We see, at the same ti...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD,.... Who died, as before observed, a few months after this tragedy was acted; and, according to the w Jewish writers, on the seventh day of the month Cisleu, and which answers...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, Ver. 19. _But when Herod was dead_] Not long after this butchery at Bethlehem he fell into a foul and lo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When Herod was dead_ His death, of which Josephus has given us a very affecting account, happened, according to some, within three or four months of his perpetrating the above-mentioned bloody act, a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The evangelist now returns to the story of the Savior:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARETH IN A DREAM TO JOSEPH IN EGYPT,...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 2:20"....

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    The Protevangelium of James For it was he who had been warned by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death until he should see the Christ in the flesh.[57]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 2:19 But G1161 Herod G2264 dead G5053 (G5660) behold G2400 (G5628) angel G32 Lord G2962 appeared...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,' This comment contains within it the idea of the inevitability of Herod's death. It was to be expe...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JESUS IS DRIVEN INTO EXILE AND FINALLY RETURNS TO LOWLY NAZARETH (2:12-23). As a result of a warning dream the Magi did not return to Herod but slipped out of the country ‘another way', while Joseph s...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 2:19. WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD. Herod died at Jericho about the time of the Passover (April) in the year 750 after the building of Rome, four years before the date from which we reckon our time. Th...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    AFTER HEROD HAD DIED. That signaled for the return. Herod died in the spring of the year _"750 after the building of Rome" Just_ before the Passover. This makes his death almost four years before the...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 11:45; Daniel 8:25; Ezekiel 11:16; Isaiah 51:12; Jeremiah 30:

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe, 1. Herod's death: like. bloody persecutor, he is sent unlamented to his grave. Historians say, that out of his body issued forth such impure streams of blood that the loathsomeness and pain m...

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