Jeremiah 2:3

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Israel was holy to Jehovah, the firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him become guilty; evil shall come on them, a statement of Jehovah.

Cross References

Exodus 22:29

You shall not delay giving the fullness of your crops and juices of your vintage. You shall give to Me the first-born of your sons.

Exodus 23:16

Also the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, at the end of the year, at your gathering your work from the field.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all shall be ashamed and humiliated, all who are provoked with you; they are as nothing, and men of your contention are perishing.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people; I defiled My inheritance and gave them into your hand. You gave them no compassion; you made your yoke on the aged very heavy.

Jeremiah 12:14

So says Jehovah against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck the house of Judah from their midst.

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the Word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 30:16

Therefore, all those who devour you shall be devoured. And all the ones pressing you, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And those plundering you I will give up to plunder, and all preying on you I will give up for prey.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who have found them have devoured them. And their oppressing ones said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, and the hope of their fathers, Jehovah.

Joel 1:3

Recount to your sons about it, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, those noted as the chief of the nations! And the house of Israel came to them.

Habakkuk 1:11

Then he sweeps on like a wind; and he passes on and is guilty, crediting this power of his to his god.

Zechariah 1:15

And with great wrath I am angered at the nations at ease; in that I was but a little angry, and they helped for evil.

Zechariah 2:8

For so says Jehovah of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory, to the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.

Numbers 18:12

All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat, the first fruits of them which they give to Jehovah, I have given to you.

Romans 11:16

Now if the firstfruit is holy, so also the lump. And if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

Romans 16:5

And greet the assembly at their house, and my beloved Epenetus, who is a firstfruit of Achaia for Christ.

Ephesians 1:4

even as He elected us in Him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and without blemish before Him in love,

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God; and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people to Him, a special treasure out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

And He will make you high above all nations that He has made, in praise, and in name, and in glory; and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, as He has spoken.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be for a people to Him, a special possession out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

James 1:18

Having purposed, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may proclaim the excellencies” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6

Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones following the Lamb wherever He may go. These were redeemed from among men as a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.