Bible verses about "infanticide" | Williams

¹⁶ Then Herod, because he saw that a trick had been played on him by the stargazers, was very angry, and sent and slaughtered all the boy babies in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood, from two years down, in accordance with the time which he had found out from the stargazers. ¹⁷ Then the saying was fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: ¹⁸ "A sob was heard in Ramah, weeping and great wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were gone."

¹⁹ By taking a cunning advantage of our race he oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to expose their infants so that they should not live.