Jeremiah 2:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods,: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Israel was holiness [something set apart from ordinary purposes, dedicated] to the Lord, the firstfruits of His harvest [of which no stranger was allowed to partake]; all who ate of it [injuring Israel] offended and became guilty; evil came upon them, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

³ Israel was devoted to the LORD, the early produce of the harvest. Whoever ate from it became guilty; disaster overtook them, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Israel is holy to the Lord, the first of his fruits. All those who devour him commit an offense. Evils will overwhelm them, says the Lord."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Israel is holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all they that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:3 Cross References

Exodus 22:29

Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

Exodus 23:16

9 Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

Isaiah 41:11

9 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:

Isaiah 47:6

4 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver them- selves from the power of the dames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.

Jeremiah 12:14

And I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord had commanded me.

Jeremiah 2:4

2 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:16

4 The Lord will not turn away the wrath of his indignation, till he have executed and performed the thought o his heart: in the latter days you shall understand these things.

Jeremiah 50:7

5 Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do to her.

Joel 1:3

1 The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.

Amos 6:1

And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die.

Habakkuk 1:11

And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.

Zechariah 1:15

And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great the length thereof.

Zechariah 2:8

And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the face of the angel.

Numbers 18:12

7 But the firstling of a cow and of a sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause to be redeemed, because they are sanctified to the Lord. Their blood only thou shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour to the Lord.

Romans 11:16

4 For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, were grafted into the good olive tree; how much more shall they that are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Romans 16:5

4 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren that are with them.

Ephesians 1:4

3 In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth, (the gospel of your salvation;) in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise,

Deuteronomy 14:2

But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

Deuteronomy 26:19

And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,

Deuteronomy 7:6

1 eep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

James 1:18

7 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

1 Peter 2:9

8 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Revelation 14:4

3 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; for their works follow them.