Jeremiah 16:2

The Scriptures 2009

“Do not take a wife, nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking.

Jeremiah 16:1

And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus said יהוה concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them and their fathers who bring them forth in this land,

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and bring forth sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters, and be increased there, and not diminished.

Lamentations 2:22

“Would You proclaim, as in a day of appointed time, The fears that surround me? And no one escaped or survived In the day of the displeasure of יהוה. Those whom I have nursed and brought up My enemy has destroyed.”

Matthew 24:19

And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing children in those days!”

Luke 21:23

“And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing children in those days! For there shall be great distress in the earth and wrath upon this people.

Luke 23:29

“For look, days are coming in which they shall say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed!’