Jeremiah 16:2

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Jeremiah 16:1

Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 16:3

For the LORD says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

Lamentations 2:22

“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

Matthew 24:19

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

Luke 21:23

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’