Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

In Context

13For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:3And Abram said, Behold, thou have given no seed to me. And, lo, a man born in my house is my heir.

Ecclesiastes 2:7I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:10-14

Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord , and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord . 13 For my… Read the whole commentary →

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