New International Version
Jeremiah 16:2
2“You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.”
Jeremiah 16:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Do not get married or have children in this place.
Context of Jeremiah 16:2
1Then the word of the Lord came to me: “You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.” 3For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers: 4“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”
Read all of Jeremiah 16Jeremiah 16:2 word by word
לֹֽא־תִקַּ֥ח לְךָ֖ אִשָּׁ֑ה וְלֹֽא־יִהְי֤וּ לְךָ֙ בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנ֔וֹת בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 16:2
- Genesis 19:14So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
- Matthew 24:19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
- Luke 21:23How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
- Luke 23:29For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
- 1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 16:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Those shalt not take thee a wife - As it would be very inconvenient to have a family when the threatened desolations should come on the place. The reason is given in the following verses.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2As marriage was obligatory upon the Jews, the prohibition of it to Jeremiah was a sign that the impending calamity was so great as to override all ordinary duties. Jeremiah was unmarried, but the force of the sign lay in its being an exception to the ordinary practice of the prophets. In this place - The whole of Judaea.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2In Hebrew society, bachelors were uncommon, and males were expected to marry in their early twenties. However, the severe crisis of the time required Jeremiah to serve as a divine messenger without family obligations. He needed to rely completely on the Lord (compare 1 Corinthians 7:26–35).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-212. in this place--in Judea. The direction to remain single was (whether literally obeyed, or only in prophetic vision) to symbolize the coming calamities of the Jews (Eze 24:15-27) as so severe that the single state would be then (contrary to the ordinary course of things) preferable to the married (compare 1Co 7:8, 26, 29; Mt 24:19; Lu 23:29).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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