Jeremiah 2:14

A Conservative Version

Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

Cross References

Exodus 4:22

And thou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says LORD, Israel is my son, my first-born,

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your moth

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, Behold, thou have given no seed to me. And, lo, a man born in my house is my heir.

Exodus 12:49

One law shall be to him who is home-born, and to the stranger who sojourns among you.

Jeremiah 5:19

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why has LORD our God done all these things to us? Then thou shall say to them, Just as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so ye shall serve strangers in a land t

Jeremiah 17:4

And thou, even of thyself, shall discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee, and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou know not. For ye have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever.