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Herod orders the killing of male children in Bethlehem and the surrounding region because he realizes the Magi have outwitted him Matthew 2:16. He acts based on the time he learned from the Magi about the star’s appearance Matthew 2:16.
16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent forth, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem, and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.