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. {ruled: Heb. judged}

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.

So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, {Is} this Naomi?

And all the people that {were} in the gate, and the elders, said, {We are} witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: {do thou...: or, get thee riches, or, power} {be famous: Heb. proclaim thy name}

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which {is} Bethlehem.

Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who {was} a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.