Jeremiah 16:8
And the house of banqueting, shall thou not enter To sit with them, To eat and to drink.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 26:4I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;
Isaiah 22:12And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day,—for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,
Amos 6:4Who are lying on beds of ivory, and sprawling on their couch of pleasure,—and eating the well-fed of the flock, and the fatted calves out of the midst of the stalls:
Luke 17:27They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage,—until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Ephesians 5:11And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;
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 →