In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

During the reign of Herod king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and he had a wife named Elizabeth, who was a descendant of Aaron.

and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

Now Herod was having an angry quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they joined together and presented themselves before him. And after convincing Blastus, the king’s personal assistant, to help them, they asked for peace, because their country’s food supply was provided by the king’s country.