Jeremiah 16:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Jeremiah, you must not get married. You must not have sons or daughters in this place.”

Cross References

Luke 23:29

The time is coming when people will say, ‘The women who cannot have babies are the ones God has blessed. It’s really a blessing that they have no children to care for.’

Luke 21:23

During that time it will be hard for women who are pregnant or have small babies, because very bad times will come to this land. God will be angry with these people.

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, the men who had married his other daughters. He said, “Hurry and leave this city! The Lord will soon destroy it!” But they thought he was joking.

Matthew 24:19

“During that time it will be hard for women who are pregnant or have small babies!

Jeremiah 16:1

The Lord’s message came to me:

Jeremiah 16:3

This is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters who are born in the land of Judah and about their mothers and fathers:

Jeremiah 29:6

Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons, and let your daughters be married. Do this so that they also may have sons and daughters. Have many children and grow in number in Babylon. Don’t become fewer in number.

Lamentations 2:22

You invited terror to come to me from all around. You invited terror as though you were inviting it to a festival. No one escaped on the day of the Lord’s anger. My enemy killed the people who I raised and brought up.