iCited Matt. 2:18
nCited from Jer. 31:15
Genesis 37:30
30and returned to his brothers and said, “The boy ais gone, and I, where shall I go?”Genesis 42:36
36And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bbereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”Genesis 42:38
38But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for chis brother is dead, and he is the only one left. dIf harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, eyou would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”Genesis 44:20
20And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, fand a young brother, gthe child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’Genesis 44:28
28One left me, and I said, h“Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since.Genesis 45:26
26And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.Jeremiah 31:15
15 Thus says the Lord:i“A voice is heard in jRamah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
kRachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
lbecause they are no more.”
Lamentations 5:7
7Our fathers sinned, and are no more;mand we bear their iniquities.
Matthew 2:16
Herod Kills the Children
16Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.Matthew 2:18
18 n“A voice was heard in Ramah,weeping and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be comforted, because they oare no more.”
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