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A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more (Jeremiah 31:15 NIV). [ 7 ] Rachel – the ancestress of the three tribes, Ephraim , Manasseh , and Benjamin [ 8 ] – had so desired children that she considered herself dead without them ( Genesis 30:1 ).
The voice heard in Rama was that of the lamentation and weeping and great mourning taking place in Bethlehem. The outcry was so great that it was heard from over 5 miles away. The most pertinent problem however is the fact that Jeremiah continues his narration in the consecutive verses Jeremiah 31:16-17, [ 6 ] where the Lord says that the ...
Jeremiah 31:15 - A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more; He shall be called a Nazarene - Matthew's text states that these words were "spoken by the prophets", [2] but "it is not clear which prophetic oracles Matthew alludes ...
This is followed by a reference to and quotation from the Book of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:15) (Jeremiah 31:14 in the Hebrew Bible): "Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."
The initial text line Vox in Rama (“voice in Ramah”) is taken from a Bible passage found in (Jeremiah 31:15) “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.” and is cited in Matthew 2:18 as a prophetic ...
Even the prophet Ezekiel, who saw many visions, "heard a voice of one that spoke"; [2] similarly, Elijah recognized God by a "still, small voice", and a voice addressed him. [3] Sometimes God's voice rang from the heights, from Jerusalem, or from Zion; [4] and God's voice was heard in the thunder and in the roar of the sea. [1]
R. Simeon quoted here the verse: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, because they were not" (Jer. XXXI, I5). 'The Community of Israel is called "Rachel", as it says, "As a sheep (rahel) before her shearers is dumb" (Isa.
Massacre of the Innocents from the late 10th-century Codex Egberti. The Ordo Rachelis (Play of Rachel), Interfectio Puerorum (Murder of the Children), or Ludus Innocentium (Play of the Innocents) is a medieval dramatic tradition consisting in four plays and based on the Massacre of the Innocents, an event recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, and on the prophecy recorded in the Book of Jeremiah ...