Matthew 2:17

Literal Standard Version

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

King James Version (1611)
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Ieremie the Prophet, saying,

King James Version
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

English Standard Version
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

New American Standard Bible
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

New Century Version
So what God had said through the prophet Jeremiah came true:

Amplified Bible
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then was that fulfilled which is spoken by the Prophet Ieremias, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

Legacy Standard Bible
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

Contemporary English Version
So the Lord's promise came true, just as the prophet Jeremiah had said,

Complete Jewish Bible
In this way were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Yirmeyahu,

Darby Translation
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias the prophet, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
This gave full meaning to what God said through the prophet Jeremiah:

George Lamsa Translation
Then was fulfilled what was said by the prophet Jeremiah who said,

Good News Translation
In this way what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true:

Lexham English Bible
Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying,

Literal Translation
Then was fulfilled that spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

American Standard Version
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true,

Hebrew Names Version
Then that which was spoken by Yirmeyahu the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

International Standard Version
Then what was declared by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled when he said,Jeremiah 31:15;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Eramio the prophet, who said,

Murdock Translation
Then was that fulfilled, which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then was fulfylled that, which was spoken by Ieremie the prophete, saying.

English Revised Version
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

World English Bible
Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet,

Weymouth's New Testament
Then were these words, spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, fulfilled,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne `it was fulfillid, that was seid bi Jeremye, the profete,

Update Bible Version
Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

New English Translation
Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

New King James Version
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

New Living Translation
Herod's brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:

New Life Bible
Then it happened as the early preacher Jeremiah said it would happen.

New Revised Standard
Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then was fulfilled, that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then was fulfilled yt which was spoken by the Prophet Ieremy sayinge:

Young's Literal Translation
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then was yt fulfilled which was spoken by ye Prophet Ieremy sayinge:

Mace New Testament (1729)
Then was fulfilled that passage of Jeremy the prophet,

Simplified Cowboy Version
This also brought truth to a long ago foretelling by the prophet Jeremiah,

Contextual Overview

¹⁶Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the magi, was very angry, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the magi. ¹⁷Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,¹⁸"A voice in Ramah was heard—weeping and much mourning—Rachel weeping [for] her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not."

Bible Verse Review
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Matthew 2:15

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

Genesis 2:4
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God's making the earth and the heavens;

Genesis 2:6
and a mist goes up from the earth, and has watered the whole face of the ground.

Genesis 2:9
and YHWH God causes to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Genesis 2:10
And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it is parted, and has become four chief [rivers];

Genesis 2:12
and the gold of that land [is] good; the bdellium and the shoham stone [are] there;

Genesis 2:13
and the name of the second river [is] Gihon, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

Genesis 2:18
And YHWH God says, "[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart."

Genesis 2:20
And the man calls names to all the livestock, and to bird of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man a helper has not been found as his counterpart.

Genesis 2:21
And YHWH God causes a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he sleeps, and He takes one of his ribs, and closes up flesh in its stead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 17, 18. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken,.... By the slaughter of the infants at Bethlehem was literally accomplished what had been predicted by

Jeremy the prophet, in Jeremiah 31:15.

in Rama was there a voice heard, c. That this prophecy belongs not to the Babylonish captivity, but the times of the Messiah, appears from the whole context which manifestly speaks of the miraculous conception of Christ, of the blessings of his kingdom to be enjoyed by his people, and of the new covenant to be made with them, as I have shown in another place r. Rama was not in Arabia, as Justin Martyr says s, but a town in the tribe of Benjamin,

Joshua 18:25 and very near to Bethlehem in the tribe of Juda: between these two places, and near to both of them, was the grave of Rachel,

Genesis 35:19 for which reason, and also because Rama belonged to Benjamin, a son of hers, and where, no doubt, many children were destroyed in this massacre, as well as at Bethlehem, Rachel is introduced in the prophecy representing the sorrowful mothers of those parts,

weeping for their children; whose distress and grief are signified by several words, "lamentation, weeping and great mourning", to express the excessiveness thereof, for they

would not be comforted; they refused to hear anything that might be suggested to them for their relief, because their children

were not, i.e. were dead, were not in the land of the living, and no more to be enjoyed by them in this world. I cannot forbear transcribing a remark made by a noted Jew t upon that passage in

Genesis 35:20. "And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave"; to show, says he, that Jacob saw that this thing was of the Lord, and that it would be an help to her children, as it is written, "a voice was heard in Rama", c. wherefore he set a pillar upon her and to show that the affair of her grave, that this היתה לעתיד "belonged to the time to come", he says, "that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day": he means,

יום הגאולה, "the day of redemption". And Rachel, in the passage of Jeremy, the Jews u themselves own, means the congregation of Israel.

r Prophecies of the Messiah, &c. p. 126, &c. s Dialog. cum Tryph. p. 304. t R. Abraham Seba Tzeror Hammor, fol. 47. 1. u Zohar in Exod. fol. 13. 1. & in Lev. fol. 8. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then was fulfilled - The word “fulfilled,” here. is used evidently in the sense that the words in Jeremiah aptly express the event which Matthew was recording. Compare the notes at Matthew 1:22.

That which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet - Jeremiah. This quotation is taken from Jeremiah 31:15. The original design of the prophecy was to describe the sorrowful departure of the people of Israel into captivity after the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuzaradan. The captives were assembled at Rama, Jeremiah himself being in chains, and there the fate of those who had escaped in the destruction of the city was decided at the will of the conqueror, Jeremiah 40:1. The nobles had been slain; the sons of the king had been murdered in his presence; the eyes of the king had been put out, and the people were then gathered at Rama in chains, whence they were to start on their mournful journey, slaves to a cruel monarch, leaving behind them all that was dear in life. The sadness of such a scene is well expressed in the language of the prophet, and it no less beautifully and suitably applies to the melancholy event which the evangelist records, and there could be no impropriety in his using it as a quotation.