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Verse Jeremiah 31:15. _A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH_] The Ramah
mentioned here, (for there were several towns of this name,) was
situated in the tribe of Benjamin, about _six_ or _seven_ miles from
Jer...
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The religious character of the restoration of the ten tribes.
Chastisement brought repentance, and with it forgiveness; therefore
God decrees their restoration.
Jeremiah 31:15
Ramah, mentioned becaus...
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CHAPTER 31
_ 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1) _
2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10)
3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15)
4. Assur
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Jeremiah hears Rachel (the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, Genesis
30:24; Genesis 35:16 ff.) weeping at (her grave near) Ramah, for her
children, the northern exiles. He bids her refrain, in the certai...
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A VOICE WAS HEARD, &C. Quoted in Matthew 2:18. Reference to Pentateuch
(Genesis 35:19). App-92.
IN RAMAH. on the high place. Evidently. "high place" near Bethlehem..
common name in Palestine. The Tar...
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A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH— The prophet describes the lamentations
in and about Jerusalem at the time of the several captivities, under
the image of a mother lamenting over her dead children. The mour...
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3. _The disconsolate_ (Jeremiah 31:15-17)
TRANSLATION
(15) Thus says the LORD: Listen! In Ramah lamentation is heard! bitter
weeping! Rachel is weeping over her children. She refuses to be
comforted...
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Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted
for her children, because they were not.
RAMAH - in Benjamin...
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The mourning which took place at Ramah, whether on account of some
unrecorded butchery there on the part of the Chaldean conquerors, or
in reference to their general cruelty to the exiles there assemb...
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1-22. Jeremiah speaks of the restoration first of Israel (Ephraim,
Jeremiah 31:2), then of Judah (Jeremiah 31:23.). Those who survive the
sufferings of the captivity are promised a safe journey home....
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A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH. — The sharp contrast between this and
the exulting joy of the previous verse shows that we are entering on a
new section which repeats in altered form the substance of the...
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כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה קֹ֣ול בְּ
רָמָ֤ה נִשְׁ
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CHAPTER XXXI
RESTORATION II
THE NEW ISRAEL
Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
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Continuing, the Prophet dealt with the issues of restoration. He first
described the restoration of the city. After affirming the ancient
love of Jehovah for His people, he foretold the building of th...
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Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and]
bitter weeping; (t) Rachel weeping for her children refused to be
comforted for her children, because they [were] not.
(t) To declar...
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High. Literally, "high places." Hebrew Rama. (Haydock) --- There was a
city of this name near Bethlehem, where Rachel was buried. Benjamin
was her son, and was conducted by this road to Babylon. (Chal...
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The Evangelist hath made application of what is here said to the
murder of the young children by Herod: and thereby hath very clearly
shown, that the whole of this blessed chapter is of gospel
signifi...
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Here, in the first place, the Prophet describes the desolation of the
land, when deprived of all its inhabitants; and, in the second place,
he adds a comfort, — that God would restore the captives fro...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32.
But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah
were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel
should enjoy...
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THUS SAITH THE LORD, A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH,.... Which signifies a
high place; hence the Targum paraphrases it,
"in the high place of the world;''
and so the Vulgate Latin version,
"in a high p...
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Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and]
bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted
for her children, because they [were] not.
Ver. 15. _A voice...
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_Thus saith the Lord; A voice_, &c. Here “the scene of this prophecy
changes, and two new personages are successively introduced, in order
to diversify the subject, and to impress it more strongly on...
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Thus saith the Lord, A voice was heard in Ba-mah, a city some nine or
ten miles north of Jerusalem, on the boundary between the former
kingdoms of Israel and Judah, LAMENTATION AND BITTER WEEPING: BAH...
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SORROW TURNED INTO JOY...
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10-17 He that scattered Israel, knows where to find them. It is
comfortable to observe the goodness of the Lord in the gifts of
providence. But our souls are never valuable as gardens, unless
watered...
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Interpreters are much divided in the sense of these words, whether
they should refer to the slaughter of the Jews belonging to the ten
tribes, upon their being captivated by the Assyrians, or to the
s...
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Jeremiah 31:15 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 voice H6963 heard H8085
(H8738) Ramah H7414 Lamentation H5092 bitter
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BUT THIS GREAT JOY WILL ARISE OUT OF SORROW AND OUT OF WHAT YHWH HAS
CAUSED TO HAPPEN TO HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 31:15).
In a deliberate contrast to the joy and exultancy of the previous
verses, Jeremiah...
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Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, faith the LORD, will I be the God of
all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._
How divinely he talks, as only God can talk These people had rejected...
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Jeremiah 31:1. At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of
all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith
the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace...
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Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of
all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._
During the Israelites' banishment to Babylon, God's covenant with them...
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CONTENTS: Israel in the last days.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: God will again at the end of the age take Israel into new
covenant relation with Himself, from which they have for hundreds of
years b...
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Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time,_ namely, as the last words of the
preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious,
and the language sublime.
Jeremiah 31:3. _I have loved thee with...
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_A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel
weeping for her children._
INNOCENTS’ DAY
Undoubtedly it seems strange, that one of the earliest consequences of
the incarnation o...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous
passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:15 RAMAH. Five miles (8 km) north of
Jerusalem and on the route to exile (Jeremiah 40:1). RACHEL. Jacob
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Vide_ on chap. 30. These two Chapter
s form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s
salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity
of bo...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 31:1
The promise of Jeremiah 30:22 is expressly declared to apply to both
sections of the nation. Jehovah thus solemnly declares his purpose of
mercy, and dwells with special Mad...
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This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40.
Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation
forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all
of...
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1 Samuel 7:17; Ezekiel 2:10; Genesis 37:35; Genesis 42:13; Genesis 42
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In Ramah — That is, in Canaan, and particularly in Ramah, where
Nebuzar — adan, Jeremiah 40:1, disposed of the prisoners he had
taken, setting some at liberty, ordering others to death, and carrying
t...