Matthew 2:18

18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping [for] her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because {they exist no longer}."

Matthew 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

(See Gill on Matthew 2:17)

Matthew 2:18 In-Context

16 Then Herod, [when he] saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent [soldiers] [and] executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region [around] it from [the age of] two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men.

17 Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying,

18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping [for] her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because {they exist no longer}."

19 Now [after] Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

20 saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "they are not"
• [b]. A quotation from Jer 31:15