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Bible references
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, (Matthew 2:17 KJV)
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, (Matthew 2:17 ASV)
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias the prophet, saying, (Matthew 2:17 DBY)
Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, (Matthew 2:17 WEB)
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, (Matthew 2:17 YLT)
Interlinear KJV
Mt 2:17 Then /tote/ was fulfilled /pleroo/ that which /ho/ was spoken /rheo/ by /hupo/ Jeremy /Ieremias/ the prophet, /prophetes/ saying, /lego/
People’s New Testament Commentary
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet. The saying is found in Jer 31:15, and was first spoken with reference to the desolation of Israel by Nebuchadnezzar. The survivors of the Israelites were gathered by their conquerors as captives at Ramah. There the voice of lamentation was heard from the mothers bereft of their offspring. The prophet describes Rachel, the mother of two great tribes, as weeping and refusing to be comforted. It was still more appropriate to the bereaved mothers of Bethlehem. Within half a mile of that city was the tomb of Rachel, and hence the pathetic language of the prophet is again applied to the inconsolable mothers of Bethlehem, as though the Rachel that slept in the tomb were a mourner over her slain offspring. On the site of the tomb Rachel is now a Mahometan mosque. For the burial of Rachel, see Ge 35:19.
Philip Doddridge N.T.
Verse 17: And then, as this cruel execution extended itself to the neighboring places, and in particular to Ramah, a town of Benjamin, which lay near Bethlehem, that remarkable saying was farther fulfilled which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet Jer 31:15; for this was plainly an event to which those words might be applied with more literal propriety than to the captivity of the Jews in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, which they were originally intended to describe, when they were first delivered by the prophet, saying,
The Fourfold Gospel
Then was fulfilled. Mt 2:6,15,18 give us three different kinds of prophecy. The first is direct, and relates wholly to an event which was yet future; the second is a case where an act described is symbolic of another later and larger act; the last is a case where words describing one act may be taken as fitly and vividly describing another later act, though the acts themselves may bear small resemblance. (Also see TFG for Mt 2:23.) Matthew does not mean that Jeremiah predicted the slaughter at Bethlehem; but that his words, though spoken as to another occasion, were so chosen of the Spirit that they might be fitly applied to this latter occasion.
That which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet. Jer 31:15.
(TFG 52)