Matthew 2:18

Translations

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Original

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Notes

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Events

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• Herod slays male childrenc. 4 BC

Related verses

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• Jeremiah 31:15
  This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
• Jeremiah 9:17–21
  This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
• Jeremiah 4:31
  For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
• Genesis 35:16–20
  Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
• Ezekiel 2:10
  …which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
• Genesis 37:30
  …returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
• Genesis 37:33–35
  His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
• Genesis 42:36
  Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
• Job 14:10
  But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
• Revelation 8:13
  And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”

Parallels

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Jeremiah 31:1–25

People

Rachel: Wife of Jacob; mother of Joseph and Benjamin

Places

Ramah: A town in Benjamin, near Gibeah and Jerusalem

Glossary

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Bible, Quotations of the Old Testament in the New Testament· Census· Egypt, Egyptian· Gospel of Matthew· Magi· Messiah· Moses· Rachel· Rachel’s Tomb· Rama· Ramah· Slaughter of the Innocents

Topics

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Herod Murders the Infants of· Children: Edict to Murder of Herod· Egypt: The Country of: Joseph Takes Jesus To· Infanticide: General Scriptures Concerning· Jesus, the Christ: Flight Into and Return from Egypt· Miracles: Catalogue of The Deliverance of Jesus· Mourning for the Dead: Lamentations· Prophecies Respecting Christ: The Slaying of the Children of Bethlehem: Fulfilled· Prophecy: Miscellaneous, Fulfilled: Rachel Weeping for Her Children· Quotations and Allusions in the New Testament From, and To, the Old Testament· Ramah: Called Rama· Ramah: Called Rama: Prophecies Concerning· Rulers: Wicked: Herod the Great, Killing the Infants in Bethlehem· The Dead: Mourning For, often: Very Great· The Dead: Terms Used to Express: Those Who are Not