This is what the LORD says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter crying. Rachel is crying, and she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no longer alive."

Also included were Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

All his sons and daughters showed up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He kept saying, "Leave me alone! I'll go down to the next world, still mourning for my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.

This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had released him from Ramah, when he was bound in chains, along with all the exiles from Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken into exile in Babylon.

"But your majesty," they pleaded, "your servants include twelve brothers, the sons of a common father back in the land of Canaan. Please! Our youngest brother remains with our father, and the other one is no longer alive."

Their father Jacob told them, "You're causing me to lose my children! Joseph is gone. Now Simeon is gone, and you're planning to take Benjamin, too. Everything's going against me!"

When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; my hands were raised at night and they did not grow weary. I refused to be comforted.

My tent is destroyed, and all my tent cords are broken. My sons have gone away from me, they no longer live. There is no one to pitch my tent again and set up my curtains.

communing with God and then he was there no longer, because God had taken him.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathah, also known as Bethlehem.

He would return to Ramah because his house was there, and judged Israel from there. He also built an altar to the LORD there.

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

But then he passed away; in fact, he simply was not there. When I looked for him, he could not be found.

Therefore I said: "Look away from me; and let me weep bitter tears; don't try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.

being unrolled right in front of me! Written on both sides were lamentations, mourning, and cries of grief.

Herod flew into a rage when he learned that he had been tricked by the wise men, so he ordered the execution of all the male children in Bethlehem and all its neighboring regions, who were two years old and younger, according to the time that he had determined from the wise men.

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Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

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being unrolled right in front of me! Written on both sides were lamentations, mourning, and cries of grief.
Herod flew into a rage when he learned that he had been tricked by the wise men, so he ordered the execution of all the male children in Bethlehem and all its neighboring regions, who were two years old and younger, according to the time that he had determined from the wise men.

Refused

All his sons and daughters showed up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He kept saying, "Leave me alone! I'll go down to the next world, still mourning for my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; my hands were raised at night and they did not grow weary. I refused to be comforted.
Therefore I said: "Look away from me; and let me weep bitter tears; don't try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."

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"But your majesty," they pleaded, "your servants include twelve brothers, the sons of a common father back in the land of Canaan. Please! Our youngest brother remains with our father, and the other one is no longer alive."
Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"
But then he passed away; in fact, he simply was not there. When I looked for him, he could not be found.
Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.

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returned to his brothers, and shouted, "He's not there! Now what? Where am I to go?"
There will be a great cry throughout the land of Egypt, like there has never been and never will be again.

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