Matthew 2:18 Cross References

Matthew 2:18

18: "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."

Jeremiah 31:15

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

Jeremiah 9:17

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Think about what is going on! Call for the mourners to come.
  2. Quick! Begin your weeping! Let the tears flow from your eyes.
  3. Hear the people of Jerusalem crying in despair, `We are ruined! Disaster has come upon us! We must leave our land, because our homes have been torn down.'"
  4. Listen, you women, to the words of the LORD; open your ears to what he has to say. Teach your daughters to wail; teach one another how to lament.
  5. For death has crept in through our windows and has entered our mansions. It has killed off the flower of our youth: Children no longer play in the streets, and young men no longer gather in the squares.

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).
  5. Jacob set up a stone monument over her grave, and it can be seen there to this day.

Jeremiah 4:31

  1. I hear a great cry, like that of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is the cry of Jerusalem's people gasping for breath, pleading for help, prostrate before their murderers.

Genesis 37:30

  1. Then he went back to his brothers and lamented, "The boy is gone! What can I do now?"

Ezekiel 2:10

  1. He unrolled it, and I saw that both sides were covered with funeral songs, other words of sorrow, and pronouncements of doom.

Genesis 42:36

  1. Jacob exclaimed, "You have deprived me of my children! Joseph has disappeared, Simeon is gone, and now you want to take Benjamin, too. Everything is going against me!"

Job 14:10

  1. "But when people die, they lose all strength. They breathe their last, and then where are they?

Revelation 8:13

  1. Then I looked up. And I heard a single eagle crying loudly as it flew through the air, "Terror, terror, terror to all who belong to this world because of what will happen when the last three angels blow their trumpets."

Genesis 37:33

  1. Their father recognized it at once. "Yes," he said, "it is my son's robe. A wild animal has attacked and eaten him. Surely Joseph has been torn in pieces!"
  2. Then Jacob tore his clothes and put on sackcloth. He mourned deeply for his son for many days.
  3. His family all tried to comfort him, but it was no use. "I will die in mourning for my son," he would say, and then begin to weep.
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