Matthew 2:16-18

Names of God Bible

¹⁶When Herod saw that the wise men had tricked him, he became furious. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys two years old and younger in or near Bethlehem. This matched the exact time he had learned from the wise men. ¹⁷Then the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah came true:

¹⁸“A sound was heard in Ramah,
    the sound of crying in bitter grief.
        Rachel was crying for her children.
            She refused to be comforted
                because they were dead.”

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