Matthew 2:18

Satan seeks to kill, steal and destroy those who place their trust in Jesus Christ for salvation. If he fails at his attacks on us he goes after our children.

Matthew quotes Jeremiah 31:15; the context of children being slaughtered and Jesus’ family being uprooted parallels the context of Jeremiah’s prophecy. Faithlife Bible.

This prophecy comes from Jeremiah, in which Rachel, who had been entombed near Bethlehem some 13 centuries before the Babylonian captivity, is seen weeping for her children as they were led away to Babylon in 586 b.c. In the slaughter of the male infants at the time of Christ’s birth, Rachel once again is pictured as mourning the violent loss of her sons. NKJ Bible.

Matthew 2:18 (NKJV)

¹⁸ “A voice was heard in Ramah,

Lamentation, weeping, and great mourning,

Rachel weeping for her children,

Refusing to be comforted,

Because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 31:15 (NKJV) Mercy on Ephraim

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord:

“A voice was heard in Ramah,

Lamentation and bitter weeping,

Rachel weeping for her children,

Refusing to be comforted for her children,

Because they are no more.”