JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 31:15 Ramah. Five miles (8 km) north of Jerusalem and on the route to exile (Jeremiah 40:1). Rachel. Jacob’s second and favorite wife (Genesis 29:30). Joseph was her son and the father of Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 30:22; Genesis 41:50). Rachel was buried near Bethlehem (Genesis 35:19). Jeremiah focuses on the grief of the exile, as if it touched Rachel herself. See Matthew 2:18.

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