Jeremiah 16:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not take a wife and do not have sons and daughters in this place,

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had contracted marriage with his daughters. “Come on, leave this place,” he told them; “the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Jeremiah 16:1

This word came to me from the Lord:

Jeremiah 16:3

for thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, the mothers who give them birth, the fathers who beget them in this land:

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters. Increase there; do not decrease.

Lamentations 2:22

You summoned as to a feast day terrors on every side; On the day of the Lord’s wrath, none survived or escaped. Those I have borne and nurtured, my enemy has utterly destroyed.”

Matthew 24:19

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days.

Luke 21:23

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for a terrible calamity will come upon the earth and a wrathful judgment upon this people.

Luke 23:29

for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’