Jeremiah 2:14

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why has he become a captive and a prey?

Cross References

Genesis 15:3

And Abram continued, Look, You have given me no child; and [a servant] born in my house is my heir.

Exodus 12:49

There shall be one law for the native-born and for the stranger or foreigner who sojourns among you.

Exodus 4:22

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord, Israel is My son, even My firstborn.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I bought menservants and maidservants and had servants born in my house. Also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 50:1

THUS SAYS the Lord: Where is the bill of your mother's divorce with which I put her away, O Israel? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

Jeremiah 17:4

And you, through your own fault, will loosen your hand and discontinue from your heritage which I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for you have kindled a fire in My anger which will burn throughout the ages.

Jeremiah 5:19

And when your people say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? then you shall answer them, As you have forsaken Me, says the Lord, and have served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers (gods) in a land that is not yours.