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.
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Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it before me, and it was written inside and outside. And there were written in it lamentations and mourning and woe.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was scorned by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and having sent forth, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time that
Refused
Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought LORD. My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Because
Genesis 42:13
And they said, We thy servants are twelve brothers, the 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 do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Psalm 37:36
But I passed by, and, lo, he was not. Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
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Genesis 37:30
and he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not, and I, where shall I go?
Exodus 11:6
And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.