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 will spread it out before me: and it was written the face and the back side: and written upon it lamentations, sighing, and Wo.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi.
Refused
Genesis 37:35
And all his sons and all his daughters, will rise up to comfort him; and he will refuse to be comforted; and will say, For I will go down to my son mourning to hadas; and his father will weep for him.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my straits I sought Jehovah: my hand was stretched out at night, and it will not be slack: my soul refused to be comforted.
Isaiah 22:4
For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people.
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Genesis 42:13
And they will say, Thy servants twelve brethren; we the sons of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the little one with our father this day, and one, not
Job 7:21
And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not
Psalm 37:36
And he shall pass away, and behold, he is not: and I shall seek him and he was not found.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.
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Genesis 37:30
And he will turn back to his brethren, and he will say, The child is not: and I, where shall I go?
Exodus 11:6
And a great cry was in all the land of Egypt, such as was not, and such shall not be added.