Jeremiah 16:2
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 16 connects to 6 cross-references. Jeremiah is forbidden to marry, have children, enter a house of mourning, or join feasting as signs of the coming catastrophe. Their fathers forsook God and they were worse. But after the judgment, God promises a new Exodus that will …
Other Translations
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.
You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
Cross References
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man …
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a …
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall …
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that …
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you …