Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sonnes, &c.] Or, Do not take thee a wife, nor have sons, &c. as Exod. 20. 13,-17. Intimating, that the calamities of the times should be so grievous; that wife and children should be but an heavie burden amidst them, and a means to aggravate a mans grief, Hos. 9. 13, 14. Matthew 24:19. Luke 23:29. 1 Corinthians 7:26.