Jeremiah 16:2
Thou shall not take to thee a wife,—Neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 Yahweh came unto me saying:
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:6Take ye wives and beget sons and daughters, And take wives, for your sons, and, your daughters, give ye to husbands, That they may bear sons and daughters,—And so become ye many there and do not become few;
Luke 21:23Alas! for the women with child, and for them who are giving suck, in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land, and anger against this people.
1 Corinthians 7:26I consider this, then, to be, good, in the circumstances, by reason of the existing distress,—that it is, good for a man, so, to be:
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 →