What reference is Shakespear making in Henry V when mentioning the "wives of Jewry"?

Question

I have to analyze the following speech, and I am not sure what allusion he is making when saying "the wives of jewry", line 40. Anybody know? Also, the allusion to Harod.

While the mad mothers with their howls confus’d

40 Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry,

At Harod’s bloody –hunting slaughtermen.

What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?

Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy’d?

Answer 1

I think he is referring to King Herod's proclamation to kill all the 2-year-olds, and the Jewish mothers howled with grief, as will the mothers of the French city if it doesn't surrender.

Answer 2

Henry V Wives

Answer 3

After the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Herod ordered that all (Jewish) boys 2 years old and under should be killed, and their mothers were weeping and would not be comforted.