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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land, all the persons belonging to the married estate being included in this enumeration:

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See also Jeremiah 16:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The times were such that for “the present distress” it was wise for all to abstain from marriage 1 Corinthians 7:26; Matthew 24:19....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...

  • 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 death will be...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and concerning their mothers … this land_ Possibly these words are a gloss, as being apparently irrelevant, but not (as Co.) the whole _v_., for then we should have no fitting reference for "they" of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. PROPHETIC CONDUCT Jeremiah 16:1-21 Jeremiah came through his personal crisis. He repented and God took him back. Now that the rebellious prophet was humble and contrite, God gives him further ins...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD CONCERNING THE SONS AND CONCERNING THE DAUGHTERS THAT ARE BORN IN THIS PLACE, AND CONCERNING THEIR MOTHERS THAT BARE THEM, AND CONCERNING THEIR FATHERS THAT BEGAT THEM IN THIS...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי ־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה עַל ־הַ בָּנִים֙

  • 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, h...

  • 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 idolatrous...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD CONCERNING THE SONS AND CONCERNING THE DAUGHTERS THAT ARE BORN IN THIS PLACE,..... This is a reason given why the prophet should not have, and why he should not be desirous to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this...

  • 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 thin...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his country ruined very shortly. In the prospect of sad times, he is to abstain from marriage, mourning for the dead, and pleasure. Tho...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 16:3 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 sons H1121 daughters H1323 born H3205 (H8688) place H4725 mothers...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SIGN: ABSTENTION FROM MARRIAGE AND CHILDBEARING (JEREMIAH 16:2). Jeremiah's abstention from marriage and childbearing was in order to underline the awful future that waited those who were m...

  • 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 IN...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...

  • 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 giv...

  • The 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 capture...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 16:5; Jeremiah 16:9...

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