- 希律见自己被博士愚弄,就大大发怒,差人将伯利恒城里,并四境所有的男孩,照着他向博士仔细查问的时候,凡两岁以里的,都杀尽了。
- 这就应了先知耶利米的话,说,
- 在拉玛听见号??大哭的声音,是拉结哭他儿女,不肯受安慰,因为他们都不在了。
- 希律死了以后,有主的使者,在埃及向约瑟梦中显现,说,
- 起来,带着小孩子和他母亲往以色列地去。因为要害小孩子性命的人已经死了。
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- Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.
- Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
- "A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN; AND SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE."
- But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said,
- "Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child's life are dead."
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