Jeremiah 2:3

Modern English Version

Israel is holy to the Lord, and the firstfruits of His harvest. All who eat of it will become guilty; disaster will come upon them, says the Lord.

Cross References

Exodus 22:29

You must not delay to offer the first of your harvest and of your vats. You must give to Me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 23:16

You shall observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. You shall observe the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all those who were incensed against you shall be ashamed and humiliated; they shall be as nothing, and those who strive with you shall perish.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people; I have polluted My inheritance and given them into your hand. You did not show them mercy; on the aged you have laid your yoke very heavily.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus says the Lord: Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit, behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out 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 will be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And those who plunder you will become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, “We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.”

Joel 1:3

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

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those confident on the mount of Samaria, nobles of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!

Habakkuk 1:11

Then their mind changes, and they transgress and commit offense; their own power is their god.

Zechariah 1:15

And I have a great anger for those nations who are at ease, for while I was angry but a little, they helped to increase evil.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus says the Lord of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory to the nations which plunder 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 wheat, the firstfruits of what they will offer to the Lord, those have I given to you.

Romans 11:16

If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the first convert of Achaia for Christ.

Ephesians 1:4

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before Him in love;

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, treasured above all the nations that are on the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He will exalt you above all nations which He has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His special people, treasured above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

James 1:18

Of His own will He brought us forth with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Revelation 14:4

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.