Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Refused
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Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it out before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.
Refused
Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Because
Genesis 42:13
And they said, Thy servants were twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Job 7:21
And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.
Psalm 37:36
but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
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Genesis 37:30
and returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?
Exodus 11:6
And there shall be a great cry throughout the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it any more.