Chapter 28. Famous People Who Suffered
Loneliness And Depression
Depression, Mourning, And Hopelessness Can Afflict
Millions At The Same Time
One of the saddest verses of the Bible, Jeremiah 31:15, recounts the
story of mothers weeping for their children who were slaughtered by tyrants:
Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter
weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her
children because they were not (they were dead.)
Matthew writes about the killing of all boys two years old and younger,
whom the evil Herod ordered to be slaughtered. He sees this as an analogy to
the genocide of those who lost their lives when Samaria fell and also the
mass killing in the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. In Matt. Chapter 2 he
writes:
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the
King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem saying Where is
He that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and
are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was
troubled, and all Jerusalem with him, And when he had gathered all the chief
priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded where Christ should
be born.
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus is written by the
prophet: And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among
the princes of Judah; for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule
my people Israel.
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