Jeremiah Chapter 16 verse 2 Holy Bible
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.
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You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
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Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.
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Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
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You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.
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Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Thou shalt not take thee a wife. So St. Paul, "I think therefore that this is good by reason of the present distress, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is (1 Corinthians 7:26, Revised Version); and Hosea has already drawn an awful picture of "Ephraim bringing forth his children to the murderer" (Hosea 9:9). In ordinary times it was a kind of unwritten law among the Israelites to marry and beget children. Most of the prophets (e.g. Isaiah) appear to have been married. In this place; i.e. in the land of Judah. A Jeremianic phrase (comp. Jeremiah 7:3).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Thou shalt not take thee a wife . . .--The words came to an Israelite and to a priest with a force which we can hardly understand. With them marriage, and the hopes which it involved, was not only a happiness but a duty, and to be cut off from it was to renounce both, because the evil that was coming on the nation was such as to turn both into a curse. We may compare cur Lord's words in Matthew 24:19 and those spoken to the daughters of Jerusalem (Luke 23:29), and what, in part at least, entered into St. Paul's motives for a like abstinence on account of "the present distress" (1Corinthians 7:26).