Jeremiah 2:3
Israel [is] holy to YHWH, || The first-fruit of His increase, || All consuming him are guilty, || Calamity comes to them,” || A declaration of YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Hear a word of YHWH, O house of Jacob, || And all you families of the house of Israel—
Cross References
Exodus 4:22and you have said to Pharaoh, Thus said YHWH: My son, My firstborn [is] Israel,
Exodus 22:29You do not delay your fullness and your liquids; you give the firstborn of your sons to Me;
Numbers 18:12all the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat—their first-[fruits] which they give to YHWH—I have given them to you.
Deuteronomy 14:2for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH, and YHWH has fixed on you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.
Psalms 81:14As a little thing I cause their enemies to bow, || And I turn back My hand against their adversaries,
Psalms 105:25He turned their heart to hate His people, || To conspire against 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 →