5And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
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Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)It was a mark of humiliation put upon the Lord Jesus that, though he was the Desire of all nations , yet his coming into the world was little observed and taken notice of, his birth was obscure and unregarded: herein he emptied himself, and made himself of no reputation. If the Son of God must be brought into the world, one might justly expect that he should be received with all the ceremony possi…
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