18 (A)In Ramah was [a]a voice heard, mourning, and weeping, and great howling: [b]Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:18 A voice of lamenting, weeping, and howling.
  2. Matthew 2:18 That is to say, All that compass about Bethlehem: for Rachel Jacob’s wife, who died in childbirth, was buried in the way that leadeth to this town, which is also called Ephrathah, because of the fruitfulness of the soil, and plenty of corn.

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