Matthew 2:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?

Genesis 42:36

And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.

Job 14:10

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Jeremiah 31:15

So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.

Jeremiah 4:31

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

Ezekiel 2:10

And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.

Matthew 2:17

Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true,

Luke 8:52

And all the people were weeping and crying for her; but he said, Do not be sad, for she is not dead, but sleeping.

Revelation 8:13

And there came to my ears the cry of an eagle in flight in the middle of heaven, saying with a great voice, Trouble, trouble, trouble, to all on the earth, because of the other voices of the horns of the three angels, whose sounding is still to come.