Jeremiah 16:2

Revised Standard Version

“You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place; for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Jeremiah 16:1

The word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who begot them in this land:

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

Lamentations 2:22

Thou didst invite as to the day of an appointed feast my terrors on every side; and on the day of the anger of the Lord none escaped or survived; those whom I dandled and reared my enemy destroyed.

Matthew 24:19

And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

Luke 21:23

Alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days! For great distress shall be upon the earth and wrath upon this people;

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’