Jeremiah 16:2
“You do not take a wife to yourself, || Nor do you have sons and daughters in this place.”
Literal Standard 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 there is a word of YHWH 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, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and you are not few;
Luke 21:23And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man that the matter be thus:
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 →