What does Matthew 2:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"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."
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 Receptus and l...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
RAMA. Ramah in O.T. LAMENTATION. Greek. _threnos._ Occurs only here. CHILDREN. Greek plural of _teknon._ App-108....
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...
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...
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...
_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...
ΉΚΟΎΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Matthew 2:3. ΚΛΑΥΘΜΌΣ (G2805) плач, рыдания. Существительные, описывающие действия, образуются с -ΜΟΣ (BD, 58, 59; также MH, 350-51, 355). ΌΔΥΡΜΌΣ (G3602) плач, скор...
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 th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 th...
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 the...
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...
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...
_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...
“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. Thei...
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...
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...
_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....
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Matthew 2:17...
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...
_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...
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...
Here again there is the fulfillment, not of a literal, but of a typical prophecy:...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A SOUND IS HEARD IN RAMAH. Ramah was a border fortress. The generals of Nebuchadnezzar collected the captives here after the fall of Jerusalem....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 2:17 Jeremiah described the mothers of Israel (RACHEL) mourning for their CHILDREN who had been carried off into exile (Jeremiah 31:15). Like the exile, the attempt on Jesus’ l...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 2:10; Genesis 35:16; Genesis 37:30; Genesis 37:33; Genesis 42:36; Jeremiah 31:15; Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 9:17; Job 14:10;...
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...