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Matthew 2:17

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bethlehem;   Children;   Egypt;   Infanticide;   Jesus, the Christ;   Miracles;   Mourning;   Prophecy;   Rulers;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophecies Respecting Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fulfilled;   Herod;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Herod;   Matthew, gospel of;   Quotations;   Rachel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   Scripture, Unity and Diversity of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Herod the Great;   Jesus;   Rachel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Jeremiah;   Rachel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Archaeology and Biblical Study;   Fall;   Fulfill;   Innocents, Slaughter of the;   Antiochus IV;   Jeremy;   Joseph;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Herod;   Jeremy;   Jesus Christ;   Magi;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Mss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Children;   Dates (2);   Foresight;   Infancy;   Innocents;   Joseph (2);   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Old Testament (I. Christ as Fulfilment of);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem ;   Dreams;   Herod the Great;   Herod, Family of;   Jeremiah, Book of;   Jeremy ;   Matthew, Gospel by;   Quotations;   Rachel ;   19 To Accomplish, Finish, Fulfil;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Herodians;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bethlehem;   Egypt;   Gospel;   Herod;   Jeremiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Her'od;   Jer'emy,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jeremiah (1);   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Priesthood;   Quotations, New Testament;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Accommodation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

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 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

16 Herod was furious when he realized that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, based on the wise men's report of the star's first appearance. 17 Herod's brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: 18 "A cry was heard in Ramah— weeping and great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted, for they are dead."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 2:15

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.
Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis 2:6
Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:10
A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
Genesis 2:13
The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.
Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him."
Genesis 2:20
He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening.

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.


 
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