Jeremiah 16:2
“You shall not take a wife, and there shall be no sons or daughters for you in this place.
Catholic Public Domain 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
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:6Take wives, and conceive sons and daughters. And give wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters. And be multiplied there, and do not choose to be few in number.
Luke 21:23Then woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land and great wrath upon this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am.
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 →