Jeremiah 16:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 So 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 the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one who mocked.
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!

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    3For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • Jer 16:1
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    1The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

  • Exod 34:16-17
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    78%

    16And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

    17You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • Jer 29:6
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    6Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

  • Deut 28:41
    76%

    41You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.

  • Lev 18:15-19
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    15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

    16You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

    17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

    18Nor shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime.

    19Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

  • Ezek 44:22
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    22Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Amos 7:16-17
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    16Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.

    17Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.

  • Lev 19:29
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    29Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to become a whore; lest the land become full of whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Lev 21:7
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    7They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Neh 10:30
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    30And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

  • Lev 21:13-15
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    72%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these he shall not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.

    15Neither shall he profane his descendants among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

  • Deut 23:17
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    17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

  • Jer 16:7-9
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    7Nor shall anyone break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall anyone give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.

    8You shall not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

    9For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease from this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

  • Deut 22:30
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    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • Ezek 16:20
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    20Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter,

  • Deut 17:17
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    17Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    71%

    37Now my master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;

    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Jer 22:30
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    30Thus says the LORD, Write this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his descendants shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah.

  • Jer 14:16
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  • Gen 24:3
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    3and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Exod 23:26
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    26No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • Mic 2:5
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    5Therefore you shall have none who shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

  • Jer 35:7
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    7Neither shall you build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any: but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land where you are strangers.

  • Isa 39:7
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    7And of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

  • Judg 21:18
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    18However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that gives a wife to Benjamin.

  • Lev 20:21
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    21And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Deut 28:56
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  • Exod 22:24
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    24and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

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    45You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathe their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

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  • 2 Kgs 20:18
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