17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

• Matt 2:18 · paraphrase
  "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."
  Jeremiah: Rachel weeping for her children — massacre of innocents

• Rachel Weeping for Her Children
• Slaughter of the Innocents

• Rachel → Church

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Eccl 7:3 — Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
• Esth 4:4 — So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received i
• Ezek 2:10 — And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
• Gen 29:17 — Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
• Gen 35:19 — And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
• Gen 37:30 — And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
• Gen 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 unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
• Gen 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.
• Gen 42:36 — And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
• Isa 10:29 — They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
• Isa 22:4 — Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
• Isa 22:4 — Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
• Jer 10:20 — My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
• Jer 10:20 — My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
• Jer 40:1 — The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away ca
• Jer 40:1 — The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away ca
• Lam 5:7 — Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
• Lam 5:7 — Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
• Luke 7:13 — And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
• Matt 2:16 — 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 were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and
• Matt 2:18 — 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.
• Ps 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.
• Ps 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.