Jeremiah 16:2
What meaning of the jeremiah 16:2 in the Bible?
What does Jeremiah 16:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place."
What does Jeremiah 16:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place."
Verse Jeremiah 16:2. _THOSE SHALT NOT TAKE THEE A WIFE_] As it would be very inconvenient to have a family when the threatened desolations should come on the place. The reason is given in the followin...
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 forc...
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...
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...
_Thou shall not take thee a wife_ Marriage was a state of life in special favour with the Jews. By his act of self-denial therefore Jeremiah was to shew his full submission to the will of God, while i...
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...
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. The d...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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 hap...
לֹֽא ־תִקַּ֥ח לְךָ֖ אִשָּׁ֑ה וְ לֹֽא ־יִהְי֤וּ לְךָ֙ בָּנִ֣ים וּ בָנֹ֔ות בַּ † מָּקֹ֖ום...
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...
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 in...
_Place. It was going to be destroyed, and the cares of a family might interrupt the prophet. The Fathers believe that Jeremias never married, (see St. Jerome in chap. xxii. Isidor.) which was then a r...
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...
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, he rep...
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...
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 distresses w...
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 vision. O...
_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...
THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...
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. Thos...
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 and...
Jeremiah 16:2 take H3947 (H8799) wife H802 sons H1121 daughters H1323 place H4725 Genesis 19:14; Matthew 24:19; Luke 21:23, Luke 23:29; 1 Corinthians 7:26-27...
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...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:2 As a symbol to the nation, Jeremiah is instructed not to marry. Such living messages were intended to shock the people into repentance (see Jeremiah 13:1). Singleness, h...
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...
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...
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 m...
1 Corinthians 7:26; 1 Corinthians 7:27; Genesis 19:14; Luke 21:23; Luke 23:29; Matthew 24:19...