A voice was heard in Ramah] Matthew 2:18. bitter weeping] Heb. of bitternesse. Chap. 6. 26. Isaiah 22:4. Rahel weeping for her children] Rachel, as the common mother of both people; (for Ephraim came of her sonne Joseph, Genesis 48:5. and the tribe of Benjamin her younger sonne continued with Judah, 2 Chronicles 11:12.) is brought in, as out of her sepulchre, situate between Ramah and Bethlehem, in the confines of either tribe, Genesis 35:19. 1 Samuel 10:2. lamenting the losse of her children led into captivitie, as never likely to be delivered again. Applied in the Gospel to the lamentation made by the mothers of Bethlehem, for the losse of their young ones slain by Herod, Matthew 2:18. they were not] Genesis 42:13; Genesis 42:36. Chap. 10. 20.