Jeremiah 2:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the Lord.”

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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

“You shall not delay to offer from the fulness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “The first-born of your sons you shall give to me.

Exodus 23:16

You shall keep the feast of harvest, of the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand, you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage which I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 30:16

Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who despoil you shall become a spoil, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their true habitation, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Joel 1:3

Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Amos 6:1

“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

Habakkuk 1:11

Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!

Zechariah 1:15

And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:

Numbers 18:12

All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.

Romans 11:16

If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ.

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

that he will set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has spoken.”

Deuteronomy 7:6

“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 14:4

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,