Matthew 2:18

18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping and great mourning, Rachel was weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they perished.

Matthew 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

(See Gill on Matthew 2:17)

Matthew 2:18 In-Context

16 Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth and sent forth and killed all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had understood of the wise men.
17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping and great mourning, Rachel was weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they perished.
19 But when Herod was dead, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in dreams to Joseph in Egypt,
20 saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead who sought the death of the young child.
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