The Slaughter of the Innocents - Herod Has All of the Baby Boys Killed
“Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.” Matthew 2:16 ASV
Illustration of Herod’s soldiers murdering baby boys as their mothers weep. One soldier wrenches a boy away from his mother as a young girl tries to stop him. Mothers cry over and hold their murdered babies. The city walls and stairways are visible in the background.
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king, soldier, mother, soldiers, murder, babies, son, bethlehem, sons, wicked, Jesus of Nazareth, magi, Herod the Great, mothers, Herod, baby boys, innocents, slaughter, two-year-oldsSource
Right Rev. Richard Gilmour, D.D. Bible History: Containing the Most Remarkable Events of the Old and New Testaments, with a Compendium of Church History (New York, New York: Benziger Brothers, 1904) 137
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