# Matthew 2:13

> When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

— Matthew 2:13, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Egypt** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/egypt

## Who appears

- **Joseph** (the carpenter) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/people/joseph-of-nazareth

## When

- 6-4 BC? (counted from the text)
- Date source: Matthew 2 puts the birth under Herod the Great, whose death Josephus (Antiquities XVII.8) dates to 4 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Herod the Great**, king of Judea, 37-4 BC, named in the text · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XIV-XVII
- **Augustus**, emperor of Rome, 27 BC – AD 14 · Source: Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Augustus; Res Gestae Divi Augusti
- **Archelaus**, ethnarch of Judea, 4 BC – AD 6 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.13; Jewish War II.7
- **Herod Antipas**, tetrarch of Galilee, 4 BC – AD 39 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
- **Philip**, tetrarch of Ituraea, 4 BC – AD 34 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4

## See also

- Exodus 1:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/22
- Matthew 1:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/1/20
- Matthew 2:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2/12
- Acts 5:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/5/19
- Acts 10:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/10/7
- Acts 12:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/12/11
- Job 33:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/33/15
- Matthew 2:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2/16

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2/13
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).