If the star guiding them was sent by the Lord Jehovah, why would he guide them to Herod, a representative of Satan, and a mortal enemy of the babe Jesus?
If the sole purpose of the star was to guide these men to the place of Jesus' birth there was no need for them to go to Herod at all.

The reasonable answer, then, is that Satan had prepared a great conspiracy with the object of destroying the babe.

A conspiracy is a design to commit a wrongful act in which two or more join in committing the act or some part of it.

Sometimes persons are involved in a conspiracy and participate without knowing the real purpose of the one who forms the conspiracy.

Such may have been the case with these wise men; but without doubt Satan had formed and directed it.
[153]When these wise men came into the presence of Herod, he was troubled, because he feared the new king would interfere with his reign; and he "gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people [the seed of Satan and also his representatives--John 8:44] together and demanded of them where Christ should be born"-- in other words he demanded to know where the babe Jesus could be found.