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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Bible References
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Ezekiel 2:10
And He spread it before me, and it was written on the front and on the back, and written on it were [words of] lamentation (funeral songs) and mourning and woe.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he realized that he had been tricked by the magi, was extremely angry, and he sent [soldiers] and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that area who were two years old and under, according to the date which he had learned from the magi.
Refused
Genesis 37:35
Then all his sons and daughters attempted to console him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “I will go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in mourning for my son.” And his father wept for him.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand wasstretched out [in prayer] without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.
In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was
My soul refused to be comforted.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I say, “Look away from me;
Let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Therefore I say, “Look away from me;
Let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Because
Genesis 42:13
But they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers [in all], the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; please listen: the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer alive.”
Job 7:21
“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my sin and guilt?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me [diligently], but I will not be.”
“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my sin and guilt?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me [diligently], but I will not be.”
Psalm 37:36
Yet he passed away, and lo, he was no more;
I sought him, but he could not be found.
Yet he passed away, and lo, he was no more;
I sought him, but he could not be found.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It iswe who have carried their sin.
Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is
General references
Genesis 37:30
He rejoined his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?”
Exodus 11:6
There shall be a great cry [of heartache and sorrow] throughout the land of Egypt, such as has never been before and such as shall never be again.