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Micah 5:2
Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are small among the clans of Judah; one will come from you to be ruler over Israel for me. His origin is from antiquity, from ancient times.
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John 7:42
Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David lived?”
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1 Samuel 16 1
The LORD said to Samuel,“ How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected for myself a king from his sons.”
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Luke 1:26-27
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.
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Matthew 2:23
Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
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Luke 3:23-31
As he began his ministry, Jesus was about thirty years old and was thought to be the son of Joseph, son of Heli,son of Matthat, son of Levi, son of Melchi, son of Jannai, son of Joseph,son of Mattathias, son of Amos, son of Nahum, son of Esli, son of Naggai,son of Maath, son of Mattathias, son of Semein, son of Josech, son of Joda,son of Joanan, son of Rhesa, son of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, son of Neri,son of Melchi, son of Addi, son of Cosam, son of Elmadam, son of Er,son of Joshua, son of Eliezer, son of Jorim, son of Matthat, son of Levi,son of Simeon, son of Judah, son of Joseph, son of Jonam, son of Eliakim,son of Melea, son of Menna, son of Mattatha, son of Nathan, son of David,
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Matthew 1:1-17
An account of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers,Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Aram,Aram fathered Amminadab, Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon,Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, Obed fathered Jesse,and Jesse fathered King David. David fathered Solomon by Uriah’s wife,Solomon fathered Rehoboam, Rehoboam fathered Abijah, Abijah fathered Asa,Asa fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,Uzziah fathered Jotham, Jotham fathered Ahaz, Ahaz fathered Hezekiah,Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, Manasseh fathered Amon, Amon fathered Josiah,and Josiah fathered Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.After the exile to Babylon Jeconiah fathered Shealtiel, Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel,Zerubbabel fathered Abiud, Abiud fathered Eliakim, Eliakim fathered Azor,Azor fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Achim, Achim fathered Eliud,Eliud fathered Eleazar, Eleazar fathered Matthan, Matthan fathered Jacob,and Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus who is called the Messiah.So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Messiah, fourteen generations.
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Luke 4:16
He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. As usual, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
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Ruth 2:4
Later, when Boaz arrived from Bethlehem, he said to the harvesters,“ The LORD be with you.”“ The LORD bless you,” they replied.
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1 Samuel 17 58
Saul said to him,“ Whose son are you, young man?”“ The son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David answered.
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Ruth 1:19
The two of them traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was excited about their arrival and the local women exclaimed,“ Can this be Naomi?”
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Genesis 35:19
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath( that is, Bethlehem).
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Ruth 4:17
The neighbor women said,“ A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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Genesis 48:7
When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath”( that is, Bethlehem).
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1 Samuel 20 6
If your father misses me at all, say,‘ David urgently requested my permission to go quickly to his hometown, Bethlehem, for an annual sacrifice there involving the whole clan.’
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Matthew 2:1-6
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem,saying,“ Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born.“ In Bethlehem of Judea,” they told him,“ because this is what was written by the prophet:And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah: Because out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.”
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1 Samuel 16 4
Samuel did what the LORD directed and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked,“ Do you come in peace?”
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John 1:46
“ Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.“ Come and see,” Philip answered.
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Ruth 4:11
All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said,“ We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.
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1 Samuel 17 12
Now David was the son of the Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah named Jesse. Jesse had eight sons and during Saul’s reign was already an old man.
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Ruth 4:21-22
Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed,Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.