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MATTHEW 2:18 klauqmo,j {B}
The longer reading, qrh/noj kai. klauqmo,j, appears to be a scribal
assimilation to the Septuagint text of Jeremiah 31:15 (LXX 38:15). It
entered the Textus Receptu...
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Verse Matthew 2:18. _IN RAMA WAS THERE A VOICE HEARD_] These words,
quoted from Jeremiah 31:15, were originally spoken concerning the
captivity of the ten tribes; but are here elegantly applied to th...
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IN RAMA WAS THERE A VOICE HEARD - Rama was a small town in the tribe
of Benjamin. Rachel was the mother of Benjamin, and was buried near to
Bethlehem, Genesis 35:16. Rama was about 6 miles northwest o...
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2. THE KING WORSHIPPED BY GENTILES;
Jerusalem in Ignorance of Him; the Child Persecuted.
1. The Visit of the Wise Men.(Matthew 2:1 .) 2. The Flight into
Egypt. (Matthew 2:13 .) 3. The Return from Eg...
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THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. While Mt.
says Jesus was born before Herod's death (how long before he does not
say), Lk. suggests, by his reference to Quirinius, that it was...
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IN RAMAH WAS. VOICE HEARD.
Ramah was. border fortress of Judah where the captives were collected
by the the generals of Nebuchadnezzar after the fall of Jerusalem....
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The Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, and he sent
and slew all the children in Bethlehem, and in all the districts near
by. He slew every child of two years and under, reckoning from...
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
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RAMA. Ramah in O.T.
LAMENTATION. Greek. _threnos._ Occurs only here.
CHILDREN. Greek plural of _teknon._ App-108....
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Jeremiah 31:15, in LXX. Jeremiah 38:15. In a singularly touching
passage, Rachel, the mother of the tribe of Benjamin (whose tomb was
close to Bethlehem: Genesis 35:19), is conceived of as weeping for...
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ΘΡΗ͂ΝΟΣ ΚΑῚ omitted before κλαυθμὸς with אB
against many later authorities. The omission brings the quotation into
closer verbal agreement with the Hebrew; but the words are found in
the LXX., and wer...
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VER 17. THEN WAS FULFILLED THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY JEREMY THE
PROPHET, SAYING, 18. IN RAMA WAS THERE A VOICE HEARD, LAMENTATION, AND
WEEPING, AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN, AND...
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_THE MURDER OF THE INFANTS IN BETHLEHEM MATTHEW 2:16-18:_ The wicked
act of King Herod in killing all these babies must have broken the
hearts of many families. From this sad section of scripture we
o...
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DISCOURSE: 1281
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INFANTS
Matthew 2:16; Matthew 2:18. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked
of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the
children that...
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THEN WAS FULFILLED, &C.— _Then,_ &c.—_a cry heard, lamentation,
and weeping, and bitter complaint._ See, for an explanation of this
text, the notes on Jeremiah 31:15. Dr. Doddridge understands this al...
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SECTION 4. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND RETURN
TEXT: 2:13-23
13. Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child
and his...
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted,
because they are not.
IN RAMA WAS THERE A VOICE HEARD, LA...
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18 Compare Jer_31:15.
18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There
was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel,
who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...
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THE WISE MEN
1-12. The star in the east and the visit of the Magi (peculiar to St.
Matthew). The incident fits well into secular history. About the time
when the star appeared (7 or 6 b.c.), Herod the...
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MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident is
fully in accordance with what is known of Herod's character, and could
not have been suggested by the prophecy in Matthew 2:18, whi...
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WAS.. A VOICE HEARD] Jeremiah 31:15. Rachel was buried at Ramah (cp.
Genesis 35:19; 1 Samuel 10:2), and when Jerusalem was captured by
Nebuchadnezzar, trains of Jewish captives were led by her tomb on...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 2
WISE MEN VISIT JESUS 2:1-12
V1 Jesus was born in the town called Bethlehem. This was in Judea
district. At this time, Herod was th...
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IN RAMA WAS THERE A VOICE HEARD. — Here again we have an example of
St. Matthew’s application of a passage that had a direct bearing
upon the events of the time when it was delivered to those which hi...
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CHAPTER 2
His Reception - Matthew 2:1
THIS one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the Infancy.
St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little. This
singular reticence h...
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_The massacre_. Τότε : ominous _then_. When he was certain that
the Magi were not going to come back to report what they had found at
Bethlehem, Herod was enraged as one who had been befooled
(ἐνεπαίχ...
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_Flight to Egypt, massacre in Bethlehem, return to Nazareth_. These
three stories have one aim. They indicate the omens which appear in
beginnings _omina principiis inesse solent_ (Ovid). The fortunes...
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: still another prophetic reference, erem. 31:15, freely reproduced
from the Sept [10]; pathetic and poetic certainly, if the relevance be
not conspicuously apparent. The evangelist introduces the pro...
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“OUT OF EGYPT DID I CALL MY SON”
Matthew 2:16-23
The death of those little children was very pathetic. From the first
it seemed as though our Lord's advent would bring not peace, but the
sword. Their...
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The Kingdom was not ready for the King, so a reception for Him was not
arranged and organized by those who should have been waiting for Him.
They were in rebellion. The King's advent was heralded by a...
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In Rama was there (m) a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and
great mourning, (n) Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not
be comforted, because they are not.
(m) A voice of lamenting, w...
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A voice was heard in Rama. [4] St. Jerome takes Rama, not for the name
of any city, but for a high place, as appears by his Latin
translation. (Jeremias xxxi. 15.) But in all Greek copies here in St....
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SLAUGHTER OF THE INFANTS
16-18. Herod's cruelty was simply horrific, killing his wife and three
sons Antipater, only five days before he died; all the Maccabean
family; and all others who were even su...
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted,
because they are not.
Here is opened the mystery of iniquity...
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God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our
Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the
infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
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_THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN_
‘In Rama was there a voice heard.’
Matthew 2:18
These little victims were but the first sacrificed by the powers of
evil to retard the progress of the kingdom of light. Cr...
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18.A _voice was heard in Ramah _It is certain that the prophet
describes (Jeremiah 31:15) the destruction of the tribe of Benjamin,
which took place in his time: for he had foretold that the tribe of...
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Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the
prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally
acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the
wi...
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Matthew 2:17...
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great
mourning, Rachel weeping _for_ her children, and would not be
comforted, because they are not.
Ver. 18. _Lamentation, weeping, and...
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_In Rama was a voice heard Rachel weeping for her children_ Benjamin,
it is well known, was the son of Rachel: his posterity, therefore, who
inhabited Ramah and the parts adjacent, sprung from her, an...
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IN RAMA; north of Jerusalem, in the tribe of Benjamin, of which tribe
Rachel was the mother. There is probably an allusion to Rachel's
sepulchre, near to Bethlehem, where she is poetically represented...
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Here again there is the fulfillment, not of a literal, but of a
typical prophecy:...
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted,
because they are not.
The passage as penned by the prophet,...
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The deeply interesting account of Gabriel's announcement to Mary that
she would be the mother of her Lord, the details as to His birth in
Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds to the manger in which H...
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13-15 Egypt had been a house of bondage to Israel, and particularly
cruel to the infants of Israel; yet it is to be a place of refuge to
the holy Child Jesus. God, when he pleases, can make the worst...
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Ver. 17,18. The text quoted is JEREMIAH 31:15. This prophecy was
literally fulfilled when Judah was carried into captivity; there was
then a great mourning in the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, for the...
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Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V
for her children, and would not," says (the prophet), "be comforted;
sorrowing for them, for she knew," says he, "that they are not."[113]...
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Matthew 2:18 voice G5456 heard G191 (G5681) in G1722 Ramah G4471
Lamentation G2355 G2532 weeping G
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“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
And she would not be comforted,
Because they are not.”
The prophecy is taken from Jeremiah 31:15. There Is...
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JESUS IS DRIVEN INTO EXILE AND FINALLY RETURNS TO LOWLY NAZARETH
(2:12-23).
As a result of a warning dream the Magi did not return to Herod but
slipped out of the country ‘another way', while Joseph s...
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Matthew 2:18. IN RAMAH, etc. The words ‘lamentation and' are found
in the Septuagint, but to be omitted here. The passage refers
primarily to the leading of the Israelites captive to Babylon. Rachel,...
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CHRONOLOGY. We place the flight into Egypt a _fter_ the presentation
in the temple (Luke 2:22-39). The latter took place on the fortieth
day, and the interval which this allows is too brief for the ev...
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Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the
days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to
Jerusalem,_
Probably from that Assyria which is joined with Is...
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CONTENTS: Visit of the Magi, flight into Egypt, Herod's slaughter of
the innocents. Return of Joseph and Mary to Nazareth.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Herod, chief priests, scribes,
wise me...
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Matthew 2:1. _Jesus was born in Bethlehem,_ as is illustrated in Micah
5:2.
_In the days of Herod the king,_ the son of Antipater, and father of
Archelaus, who succeeded him on the throne. Herod, who...
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A SOUND IS HEARD IN RAMAH. Ramah was a border fortress. The generals
of Nebuchadnezzar collected the captives here after the fall of
Jerusalem....
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 2:17 Jeremiah described the mothers of
Israel (RACHEL) mourning for their CHILDREN who had been carried off
into exile ...
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CHAPTER 2
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of king
Herod. It is better to read here in the Greek _in Bethlehem-Juda_.
Juda means the tribe of Judah, to which, after the schism...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 2:13. EGYPT.—At all times the readiest place of refuge for
the Israelites, whether from famine or from political oppression. In
Alexandria the Jews numbered a fifth of the po...
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EXPOSITION
JESUS THE CHRIST BY HIS EARLY HISTORY answering to the word of God by
the prophets. This is shown by four particulars, for each of which a
corresponding prophecy is adduced.
(1) The place...
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Chapter Two
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod
the king (Matthew 2:1),
This is Herod the Great, that little short monster. He was a little
over four feet tall, and as...
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Ezekiel 2:10; Genesis 35:16; Genesis 37:30; Genesis 37:33; Gen
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Rachel weeping for her children — The Benjamites, who inhabited
Rama, sprung from her. She was buried near this place; and is here
beautifully represented risen, as it were out of her grave, and
bewai...