Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

15The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:3And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

Ecclesiastes 2:7I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

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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