Jeremiah 2:3

Free Bible Version

Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. Anyone who ate this harvest was guilty of sin, and they experienced the disastrous results, declares the Lord.

Cross References

Exodus 22:29

You must not hold on to the required offerings of your produce, olive oil, and wine. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 23:16

You are also to observe the Festival of Harvest when you present the firstfruits of the produce from what you've sown in the fields. Lastly you are to observe the Festival of Gathering-In the Harvest at the end of the year, when you gather in the harvest of the rest of your crops from the field.

Isaiah 41:11

See—everyone who is angry with you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who fight against you will end up as nothing and die.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, and I abandoned those who belonged to me. I handed them over to you. But you didn't show them mercy—you even mistreated old people.

Jeremiah 12:14

This is what the Lord says: When it comes to these evil nearby nations who attack the country that I gave to my people Israel, I'm going to uproot them from their land. I'm also going to uproot the people of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 2:4

Listen to the Lord's message, descendants of Jacob, all you Israelites.

Jeremiah 30:16

Even so, everyone who destroys you will be destroyed. All your enemies, every last one, will be sent into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered, and all who rob you will be robbed.

Jeremiah 50:7

All those who came across them attacked them. Their enemies declared, “We're not to blame! They're the ones who sinned against the Lord, their true resting place; the Lord who was the hope of their forefathers.”

Joel 1:3

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell it to their children, and their children tell the next generation.

Amos 6:1

How disastrous it will be for you who have an easy life in Zion, and you who feel secure living on Mount Samaria—you who are the most famous men in all of Israel to whom people come for help!

Habakkuk 1:11

Then they sweep on by like the wind and are gone. They are guilty because their own strength is their god.

Zechariah 1:15

and I am extremely angry with the arrogant nations who think they are secure. I was only a little angry with my people, but they made the punishment far worse.

Zechariah 2:8

For this is what the Lord Almighty said: Afterwards the glorious Lord sent me against the nations that plundered you—for those who touch you touch the apple of his eye.

Numbers 18:12

I am giving you all the best olive oil and all the best new wine and grain that the Israelites give as firstfruits to the Lord.

Romans 11:16

If the first part of the bread dough given as an offering is holy, then so is all the rest; if the roots of a tree are holy, then so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

Please also give my greetings to the church that meets in their home. Pass on my best wishes to my good friend Epaenetus, the first person to follow Christ in the province of Asia.

Ephesians 1:4

just as he chose us to be in him before the beginning of this world, so that in love we could be holy and without fault before him.

Deuteronomy 14:2

because you are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. The Lord chose you as his special people out of all the nations on earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He has announced that he will give you greater praise and reputation and honor than any other nation he has made. He has announced that you will be a holy people to the Lord your God, as he promised.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are the Lord your God's holy people. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special people, valued above all other peoples on the earth.

James 1:18

He chose to give us new life through the word of truth, so that out of all his creation we would be very special to him.

1 Peter 2:9

In complete contrast, you are a specially-chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God. Consequently you can reveal the wonderful things he's done, calling you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 14:4

They have not become morally impure by sinning with women; spiritually they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed from humankind as the firstfruits to God and the Lamb.