Jeremiah 16:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. ”

• Jeremiah 16:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As 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 f...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou shalt not take (a) thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place. (a) Meaning that the affliction would be so horrible in Jerusalem that a wife and children would only i...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Jeremiah 16:1 to Jeremiah 17:18 . The Coming Distress a Penalty for Sin. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows ( cf. 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which deat...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  This is a new discourse, which yet is not unlike many others, except in this particular, that the Prophet was not to marry a wife nor beget children in the land But as to the general subject...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. Those shalt not take thee a wife - As it would be very inconvenient to have a family when the threatened deso...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons nor daughters in this place - in Judea....

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot.

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say,...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I venture to read this precept given to Jeremiah concerning marriage while in Babylon, both with a national and spiritual view. No alliances were to be made by the people of God, with their idolatrou...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou shall not take thee a wife ,.... Not because it was unlawful; for it was lawful for prophets to marry, and they did; but because it was not advisable, on account of the calamities and distresse...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. Ver. 2. Thou shalt not take thee a wife, &c. ] It is very likely that this befell the prophet in a vis...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The word of the Lord came , &c. Here begins a new discourse, wherein God forbids Jeremiah to marry, principally with a view to show the miseries of parents, and the confused and ruinous state of...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Prohibitions Given to Jeremiah. B. C. 605.       1 The word of the L ORD came also unto me, s...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It is uncertain whether what we have in this chapter be a new revelation, or a continuance of his former prophecy. God commandeth the prophet in it under certain types to foretell their utter ruin an...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jeremiah Was Not To Take A Wife Or Have Sons And Daughters, Attend Funerals, Or Participate in Feasting, As A Sign Of The Devastation That Was Coming On Judah Which Would Transform Life For All Its...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the cap...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 16:2 . Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place. The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1-24 . The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1-24 , provided th...

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Instruction Of Jehovah

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• Jeremiah 16:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 7:26 ; 1 Corinthians 7:27 ; Genesis 19:14 ; Luke 21:23 ; Luke 23:29 ; Matthew 24:19

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