Matthew 2:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

“In Ramah a voice was heard crying and weeping loudly. Rachel was mourning for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were dead.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

Then he went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

Genesis 42:36

who said, “You have already taken my sons Joseph and Simeon from me. And now you want to take away Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Job 14:10

Humans are different— we die, and that's the end.

Jeremiah 31:15

In Ramah a voice is heard, crying and weeping loudly. Rachel mourns for her children and refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem. She was gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”

Ezekiel 2:10

The hand opened the scroll, and both sides of it were filled with words of sadness, mourning, and grief.

Matthew 2:17

So the Lord's promise came true, just as the prophet Jeremiah had said,

Luke 8:52

Everyone was crying and weeping for the girl. But Jesus said, “The child isn't dead. She is just asleep.”

Revelation 8:13

Then I looked and saw a lone eagle flying across the sky. It was shouting, “Trouble, trouble, trouble to everyone who lives on earth! The other three angels are now going to blow their trumpets.”