16. When Herod saw that the wise men had tricked him, he became furious. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys two years old and younger in or near Bethlehem. This matched the exact time he had learned from the wise men.
17. Then the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah came true:
18. “A sound was heard in Ramah,the sound of crying in bitter grief.Rachel was crying for her children.She refused to be comfortedbecause they were dead.”
19. After Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
20. The angel said to him, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to Israel. Those who tried to kill the child are dead.”