Jeremiah 29:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Take ye

Take wives

Bible References

Take ye

“You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place (Jerusalem).”

So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.

“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

So I want younger widows to get married, have children, manage their households, and not give opponents of the faith any occasion for slander.

Take wives

He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not marry one of the women of Canaan.

Laban said, “It is better that I give her [in marriage] to you than give her to another man. Stay and work with me.”

So Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman as a wife.”

And Caleb said, “Whoever attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will even give him my daughter Achsah as a wife.”

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family, and he brought in thirty daughters [-in-law] from outside for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.

So he went back and told his father and his mother, “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; now get her for me as a wife.”

But if any man thinks that he is not acting properly and honorably toward his virgin daughter, [by not permitting her to marry], if she is past her youth, and it must be so, let him do as he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.