Jeremiah 2:3 “Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who d…”

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her were found guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

World English Bible

Israel was holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.”

American Standard Version

Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Israel was as a thing halowed vnto the Lord, and his first fruits: all they that eat it, shall offend: euil shall come vpon them, saith the Lord.

Darby Translation

Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him are guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Holy [is] Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“holiness”

Deuteronomy 7:6 Deuteronomy 14:2 Ephesians 1:4 1 Peter 2:9 Deuteronomy 26:19 Exodus 19:5

Deuteronomy 7:6 · BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 14:2 · BSB

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Ephesians 1:4 · BSB

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

1 Peter 2:9 · BSB

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Deuteronomy 26:19 · BSB

that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.

Exodus 19:5 · BSB

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

“the first-fruits”

James 1:18 Revelation 14:4 Romans 11:16 Numbers 18:12 Exodus 22:29 Exodus 23:16

James 1:18 · BSB

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

Revelation 14:4 · BSB

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Romans 11:16 · BSB

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Numbers 18:12 · BSB

I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.

Exodus 22:29 · BSB

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 23:16 · BSB

You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

“all that”

Isaiah 41:11 Jeremiah 50:7 Zechariah 2:8 Jeremiah 12:14 Psalm 105:25–36 Isaiah 47:6

Isaiah 41:11 · BSB

Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

Jeremiah 50:7 · BSB

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

Zechariah 2:8 · BSB

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—

Jeremiah 12:14 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

Psalm 105:25–36 · BSB

whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.

Isaiah 47:6 · BSB

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Also

Jeremiah 30:16

Jeremiah 30:16 · BSB

Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.

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