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 before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.
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 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, 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 brethren, 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 dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Psalm 37:36
But one 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 unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
Exodus 11:6
And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, nor shall be any more.