Matthew 2:16-18

Living Bible

¹⁶ Herod was furious when he learned that the astrologers had disobeyed him. Sending soldiers to Bethlehem, he ordered them to kill every baby boy two years old and under, both in the town and on the nearby farms, for the astrologers had told him the star first appeared to them two years before. ¹⁷ This brutal action of Herod’s fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah,