Jeremiah 16:2
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.
Darby Translation
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 Jehovah came to me, saying,
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:6Take 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 there, and be not diminished.
Luke 21:23But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man to remain so as he is.
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 →