Jeremiah 2:3
Israel [was] holiness to LORD, the first-fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come upon them, says LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Hear ye the word of LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 4:22And thou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says LORD, Israel is my son, my first-born,
Exodus 22:29Thou shall not delay to offer from thy harvest, and from the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons thou shall give to me.
Numbers 18:12All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to LORD, I have given them to thee.
Deuteronomy 14:2For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God, and LORD has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Psalms 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms 105:25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:2-9
Jeremiah's First Message; The Divine Goodness to Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord , and the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord . 4 Hear ye the word of the… Read the whole commentary →