Jeremiah 2:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, “Behold, thou hast given me no offspring; and a slave born in my house will be my heir.”

Exodus 12:49

There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”

Exodus 4:22

And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my first-born son,

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also 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 put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Jeremiah 17:4

You shall loosen your hand from your heritage which I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever.”

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.’ ”