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 within and without: and there was written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired 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 into the grave to my son mourning: Thus his father wept for him.
Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased 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, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people.
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Genesis 42:13
And they said, 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 my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Psalm 37:36
Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Genesis 37:30
And he returned to 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 been none like it, nor shall be like it any more.