Bible Cross References
Rama
Jeremiah 31:15
The LORD says, "A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; they are gone, and she refuses to be comforted.
Ramah
Jeremiah 4:31
I heard a cry, like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman bearing her first child. It was the cry of Jerusalem gasping for breath, stretching out her hand and saying, "I am doomed! They are coming to kill me!"
Jeremiah 9:17-21
17
The LORD Almighty said, "Think about what is happening! Call for the mourners to come, for the women who sing funeral songs."
18
The people said, "Tell them to hurry and sing a funeral song for us, until our eyes fill with tears, and our eyelids are wet from crying."
19
Listen to the sound of crying in Zion: "We are ruined! We are completely disgraced! We must leave our land; our homes have been torn down."
20
I said, "Listen to the LORD, you women, and pay attention to his words. Teach your daughters how to mourn, and your friends how to sing a funeral song.
21
Death has come in through our windows and entered our palaces; it has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the marketplaces.
Ezekiel 2:10
The hand unrolled the scroll, and I saw that there was writing on both sides---cries of grief were written there, and wails and groans.
Revelation 8:13
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle that was flying high in the air say in a loud voice, "O horror! horror! How horrible it will be for all who live on earth when the sound comes from the trumpets that the other three angels must blow!"
Rachel
Genesis 35:16-20
16
Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.
17
When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy."
18
But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
19
When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.
20
Jacob set up a memorial stone there, and it still marks Rachel's grave to this day.
would
Genesis 37:30
He returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is not there! What am I going to do?"
Genesis 37:33-35
33
He recognized it and said, "Yes, it is his! Some wild animal has killed him. My son Joseph has been torn to pieces!"
34
Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.
35
All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "I will go down to the world of the dead still mourning for my son." So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.
Genesis 42:36
Their father said to them, "Do you want to make me lose all my children? Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take away Benjamin. I am the one who suffers!"
Job 14:10
But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?