Jeremiah 16:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place [Jerusalem].

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

Common English Bible

² Don’t marry or have children in this place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "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

² 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 this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

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; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Lamentations 2:22

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Matthew 24:19

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

Luke 21:23

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

Luke 23:29

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