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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 16:2 - 16:2
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in this place - in Judea. The direction to remain single was (whether literally obeyed, or only in prophetic vision) to symbolize the coming calamities of the Jews (Eze 24:15-27) as so severe that the single state would be then (contrary to the ordinary course of things) preferable to the married (compare 1Co 7:8, 1Co 7:26, 1Co 7:29; Mat 24:19; Luk 23:29).