Jeremiah 2:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become plunder?

Cross References

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”

Exodus 12:49

there shall be one law for the native-born and for the alien who resides among you.”

Exodus 4:22

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I bought male and female slaves and had slaves who were born in my house; I also 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 your mother’s bill of divorce with which I dismissed her? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? No, because of your sins you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.

Jeremiah 17:4

By your own act you shall lose the heritage that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.

Jeremiah 5:19

And when your people say, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” you shall say to them, “As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”