Jeremiah 16:2

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters, “Hurry and leave this city! The Lord is about to destroy it!” But they thought Lot was joking.

Jeremiah 16:1

Then the Lord spoke his word to me:

Jeremiah 16:3

The Lord says this about the sons and daughters born in this land and 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 so they also may have sons and daughters. Have many children in Babylon; don’t become fewer in number.

Lamentations 2:22

“You invited terrors to come against me on every side, as if you were inviting them to a feast. No one escaped or remained alive on the day of the Lord’s anger. My enemy has killed those I cared for and brought up.”

Matthew 24:19

At that time, how terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or have nursing babies!

Luke 21:23

How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or have nursing babies! Great trouble will come upon this land, and God will be angry with these people.

Luke 23:29

The time is coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the women who cannot have children and who have no babies to nurse.’