Jeremiah 16:2
“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
In Context
1Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:6Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.
Luke 21:23Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain 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 →