Jeremiah 16:2
Thou shall not take thee a wife, nor shall thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
In Context
1The word of LORD came also to me, saying,
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.
Luke 21:23But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way:
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 16:2-10
Prohibitions Given to Jeremiah. ( b. c. 605.) 1 The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying, 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung… Read the whole commentary →