# Matthew 2:18

> “A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children,
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more.”

— Matthew 2:18, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Ramah 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/ramah-1

## Who appears

- **Joseph** (the carpenter) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/people/joseph-of-nazareth

## When

- 6-4 BC? (counted from the text)
- Date source: Matthew 2 puts the birth under Herod the Great, whose death Josephus (Antiquities XVII.8) dates to 4 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Herod the Great**, king of Judea, 37-4 BC, named in the text · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XIV-XVII
- **Augustus**, emperor of Rome, 27 BC – AD 14 · Source: Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Augustus; Res Gestae Divi Augusti
- **Archelaus**, ethnarch of Judea, 4 BC – AD 6 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.13; Jewish War II.7
- **Herod Antipas**, tetrarch of Galilee, 4 BC – AD 39 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
- **Philip**, tetrarch of Ituraea, 4 BC – AD 34 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4

## See also

- Jeremiah 31:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/31/15
- Jeremiah 9:17-21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/9/17
- Jeremiah 4:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/4/31
- Genesis 35:16-20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/35/16
- Ezekiel 2:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/2/10

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2/18
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/2
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).