Cross references

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the LORD says:

“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 BSB
  1. a Cited in Matthew 2:18

Jeremiah 31:15 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 2:16–18 (20 votes) and Psalm 77:2 (13 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Genesis 5 to Luke 15.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 31:15 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: …

  2. Psalm 77:213 votes

    In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

  3. This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

  4. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

  5. All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

  6. Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

  7. My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

  8. But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

  9. Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

  10. Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

  11. Job 7:212 votes

Which verses point to Jeremiah 31:15?

The 10 strongest of 26.