Herod, when he realized that the scholars had tricked him, flew into a rage. He commanded the murder of every little boy two years old and under who lived in Bethlehem and its surrounding hills. (He determined that age from information he’d gotten from the scholars.) That’s when Jeremiah’s sermon was fulfilled:A sound was heard in Ramah,weeping and much lament.Rachel weeping for her children,Rachel refusing all solace,Her children gone,dead and buried.