Jeremiah 16:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place [Jerusalem].

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

Common English Bible

Don’t marry or have children in this place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

"You shall not take a wife, and there shall be no sons or daughters for you in this place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place.

Jeremiah 16:2 Cross References

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons in law as one that mocked.

Jeremiah 16:1

The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

Jeremiah 16:3

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:

Jeremiah 29:6

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

Lamentations 2:22

Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side, and there was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD'S anger: those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Matthew 24:19

But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

Luke 21:23

Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.