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 spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it are lamentations, and mourning, and woe!
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.
Refused
Genesis 37:35
and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, 'For -- I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.
Psalm 77:2
In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.
Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, 'Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'
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Genesis 42:13
and they say, 'Thy servants are twelve brethren; we are sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one is with our father to-day, and the one is not.'
Job 7:21
Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!
Psalm 37:36
And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
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Genesis 37:30
and he returneth unto his brethren, and saith, 'The lad is not, and I -- whither am I going?'
Exodus 11:6
and there hath been a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, and such as there is not again.