Mateus 2:20

A Biblia Sagrada

Dizendo: Levanta-te, e toma o menino e sua me, e vai para a terra de Israel; porque j esto mortos os que procuravam a morte do menino.

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Dispe-te, toma o menino e sua me e vai para a terra de Israel; porque j morreram os que atentavam contra a vida do menino.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
dizendo: Levanta-te, e toma o menino e sua me, e vai para a terra de Israel, porque j esto mortos os que procuravam a morte do menino.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

arise: Matthew 2:13, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 3:6

for: Exodus 4:19, 1 Kings 11:21, 1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 12:1-3

Reciprocal: Exodus 2:23 - the king Judges 9:5 - slew 2 Samuel 4:8 - sought Ecclesiastes 9:6 - their love Isaiah 26:14 - dead Matthew 2:14 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, arise, and take the young child and his mother,.... Joseph strictly observed and obeyed the divine command of the angel, who had ordered him to continue in Egypt, till he brought him word what he should do, and where he should go: here he was with Mary and Jesus, when the angel bid him arise, and take them with him,

and go into the land of Israel. He does not bid him go to Bethlehem or Nazareth, or any particular place, but the land of Israel, where he might go even into any part of it, without fear; and gives this reason for it,

for they are dead which sought the young child's life; meaning either Herod only, the plural number being put for the singular; or including Antipater his son with him, who might be equally concerned in seeking the life of Christ; since he was next heir, and whom Herod z ordered to be slain about five days before his death; or else designing with him many of the executioners of the infants at Bethlehem, and thereabout; who might have been, as well as he, miserable instances of divine vengeance, for their concern in that barbarous tragedy.

z Joseph. de Bello Judaico, l. 1. c. 33. sect. 8, 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They are dead who sought ... - This either refers to Herod alone, as is not uncommon, using the plural number for the singular; or it may refer to Herod and his son Antipater. He was of the same cruel disposition as his father, and was put to death by his father about five days before his own death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 2:20. They are dead — Both Herod and Antipater his son; though some think the plural is here used for the singular, and that the death of Herod alone is here intended. But as Herod's son Antipater was at this time heir apparent to the throne, and he had cleared his way to it by procuring the death of both his elder brothers, he is probably alluded to here, as doubtless he entered into his father's designs. THEY are dead-Antipater was put to death by his father's command, five days before this execrable tyrant went to his own place. See Josephus, Antiq. xvi. 11; xvii. 9.