Jeremiah 2:3
in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was the holy people to the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase: all that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2I remember the kindness of your youth, and the love of your espousals,
4Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 4:22And you shall say to Pharao, These things says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn.
Exodus 22:29You shall not keep back the first fruits of your threshing floor and press. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
Numbers 18:12Every first-offering of oil, and every first-offering of wine, their first fruits of corn, whatever they may give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
Deuteronomy 14:2For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord your God has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Psalms 105:25And they murmured in their tents: they listened not to the voice of the Lord. 1
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 →