Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was set apart to Yahweh, the firstfruits of his harvest! 1 All who ate from the firstfruits were held guilty; disaster came upon them—this is Yahweh's declaration.'” 1

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Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

In Context

2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem. Say, 'Yahweh says this: 1 I have called to mind on your behalf the covenant faithfulness in your youthfulness, your love at the time when we were engaged, 1 when you went after me in the wilderness, the land that was not sown. 1

4Hear the word of Yahweh, house of Jacob, all you clans of the house of Israel. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 4:22You must say to Pharaoh, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Exodus 22:29You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your winepresses. You must give to me the firstborn of your sons.

Numbers 18:12All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the firstfruits that the people give to me—all these things I have given to you.

Deuteronomy 14:2For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth.

Psalms 81:14Then I would quickly subdue their enemies 1 and turn my hand against their oppressors. 1

Psalms 105:25He caused their enemies to hate his people, 1 to mistreat his servants. 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 →

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