Bible Verses About Wise Men

Nowe when the morning came, his spirit was troubled: therefore he sent and called all the soothsayers of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof, and Pharaoh tolde them his dreames: but none coulde interprete them to Pharaoh.

And the thinne eares deuoured the seuen good eares. Nowe I haue tolde the soothsayers, and none can declare it vnto me.

Then Pharaoh called also for the wise men and sorcerers: and those charmers also of Egypt did in like maner with their enchantmens,

And God gaue Salomon wisdome and vnderstanding exceeding much, and a large heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shore,

And Salomons wisdome excelled the wisedome of all the children of the East and all the wisedome of Egypt.

For he was wiser then any man: yea, then were Ethan the Ezrahite, the Heman, then Chalcol, then Darda the sonnes of Mahol: and he was famous throughout all nations round about.

And Salomon spake three thousand prouerbs: and his songs were a thousand and fiue.

And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, euen vnto the hyssope that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of foules, and of creeping thinges, and of fishes.

And there came of all people to heare the wisedome of Salomon, from all Kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisedome.

Whose leaues were faire and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meate for all, vnder the which the beastes of the fielde dwelt, and vpon whose branches the foules of the heauen did sit,

Then came all the Kings wise men, but they could neither reade the writing, nor shewe the King the interpretation.

When Jesus then was borne at Bethleem in Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the King, beholde, there came Wisemen from the East to Hierusalem,

Saying, Where is that King of the Iewes that is borne? for wee haue seene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him.

When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Hierusalem with him.

And gathering together all the chiefe Priestes and Scribes of the people, hee asked of them, where Christ should be borne.

And they saide vnto him, At Beth-leem in Iudea: for so it is written by the Prophet,

And thou Beth-leem in the lande of Iuda, art not the least among the Princes of Iuda: For out of thee shall come the gouernour that shall feede that my people Israel.

Then Herod priuily called the Wisemen, and diligently inquired of them the time of the starre that appeared,

And sent them to Beth-leem, saying, Goe, and searche diligently for the babe: and when ye haue founde him, bring mee worde againe, that I may come also, and worship him.

So when they had heard the King, they departed: and loe, the starre which they had seene in the East, went before them, till it came and stoode ouer the place where the babe was.

And when they sawe the starre, they reioyced with an exceeding great ioy,

And went into the house, and founde the babe with Mary his mother, and fell downe, and worshipped him, and opened their treasures, and presented vnto him giftes, euen golde, and frankincense, and myrrhe.

And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they should not go againe to Herod, they returned into their countrey another way.