Matthew 2:18 meaning and explanation
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
Matthew 2:18, Berean Standard Bible
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Matthew quotes Jeremiah 31:15 here, right after Herod's slaughter of the boys in Bethlehem. In Jeremiah's day the words pictured Rachel, the ancestral mother of Israel, weeping as her descendants were carried into exile from Ramah, a town near Bethlehem.
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