Jeremiah 16:2

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“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are. 27 The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.
  • Luke 23:29 : 29 For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say,‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

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  • Jer 16:3
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    3For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

  • Jer 16:1
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    1Jeremiah Forbidden to Marry, to Mourn, or to Feast The LORD’s message came to me,

  • Exod 34:16-17
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    16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

    17You must not make yourselves molten gods.

  • Jer 29:6
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    6Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters to get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away.

  • Deut 7:3
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    3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Deut 28:41
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    41You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children forever.’

  • Lev 18:15-19
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    15You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.

    16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.

    17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her– it is lewdness.

    18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.

    19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.

  • Ezek 44:22
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    22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Amos 7:16-17
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    16So now listen to the LORD’s message! You say,‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach against the family of Isaac!’

    17“Therefore this is what the LORD says:‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’”

  • Lev 19:29
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    29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

  • Lev 21:7
    72%

    7They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

  • Neh 10:30
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    30“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

  • Lev 21:13-15
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    72%

    13He must take a wife who is a virgin.

    14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.

    15He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”

  • Deut 23:17
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    17Purity in Cultic Personnel There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

  • Jer 16:7-9
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    7No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.

    8“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

    9For I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.’”

  • Deut 22:30
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    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • Ezek 16:20
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    20“‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution was not enough,

  • Deut 17:17
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    17Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • Jer 22:30
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    30The LORD says,“Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah.”

  • Jer 14:16
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    16The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.”

  • Gen 24:3
    71%

    3so that I may make you solemnly promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

  • Ezek 16:32
    70%

    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Exod 23:26
    70%

    26No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • Mic 2:5
    70%

    5Therefore no one will assign you land in the LORD’s community.

  • Jer 35:7
    70%

    7Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’

  • Isa 39:7
    70%

    7‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

  • Lev 26:29
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    29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

  • Judg 21:18
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    18But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying,‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

  • Lev 20:21
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    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

  • Deut 28:56
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    56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

  • Exod 22:24
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    24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

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    45You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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    16“Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

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    61Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

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    18‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”