Genesis 48:7 Cross References

Genesis 48:7

7: As I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, just a short distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath."

Matthew 2:18

  1. "A cry of anguish is heard in Ramah--weeping and mourning unrestrained. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted--for they are dead."

Genesis 35:9

  1. God appeared to Jacob once again when he arrived at Bethel after traveling from Paddan-aram. God blessed him

Genesis 35:16

  1. Leaving Bethel, they traveled on toward Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). But Rachel's pains of childbirth began while they were still some distance away.
  2. After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed, "Don't be afraid--you have another son!"
  3. Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named him Ben-oni; the baby's father, however, called him Benjamin.
  4. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Genesis 25:20

  1. When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban.

1 Samuel 17:12

  1. Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had eight sons in all.

1 Samuel 1:1

  1. There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham and grandson of Elihu, from the family of Tohu and the clan of Zuph.

Micah 5:2

  1. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village in Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from the distant past.

Ruth 1:2

  1. The man's name was Elimelech, and his wife was Naomi. Their two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in the land of Judah. During their stay in Moab,

1 Samuel 10:2

  1. When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel's tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father is worried about you and is asking, `Have you seen my son?'
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