Jeremiah 2:3

Modern King James Version

Israel was holiness to Jehovah, and the firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him shall offend; evil shall come on them, says Jehovah.

Cross References

Exodus 22:29

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

Exodus 23:16

Also the Feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all those who were angered against you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing. And those who fight 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 showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.

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 out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 2:4

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

Jeremiah 30:16

So all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your enemies, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And they who rob you shall be robbed, and all who strip you I will strip.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We do not offend, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

Joel 1:3

Tell your sons of it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons another generation.

Amos 6:1

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

Habakkuk 1:11

Then he sweeps on like a wind, and he transgresses and is guilty, crediting his power to his god.

Zechariah 1:15

And with great anger I am angry at the nations at ease; in that I was but a little angry, and they gave help for evil.

Zechariah 2:8

For so says Jehovah of Hosts: He has sent me after glory, to the nations who stripped 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 wine, and of the wheat, the first-fruits of them which they shall offer to Jehovah, I have given them to you.

Romans 11:16

For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, also the branches.

Romans 16:5

Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epenetus, who is the first-fruits of Achaia to Christ.

Ephesians 1:4

according as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame 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 peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

and to make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise and in name and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, even 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 a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

James 1:18

Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises 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 a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.