Matthew 2:16-18

Herod Has Innocent Children Murdered

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}."

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal
  • [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  • [c]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("sent") has been translated as a finite verb
  • [d]. Literally "they are not"
  • [e]. A quotation from Jer 31:15
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