Jeremiah 2:3

Tree of Life Version

Israel was kadosh to Adonai, the firstfruits of the harvest. All who devoured him were held guilty. Catastrophe overtook them.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Cross References

Exodus 22:29

“Do the same with your cattle and with your sheep. For seven days it is to be with its mother, and on the eighth day you are to give it to Me.

Exodus 23:16

Also you are to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field, as well as the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your crops from the field.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who quarrel with you will be as nothing and perish.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with My people. I profaned My heritage. I gave them into your hand, but you showed them no mercy. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus says Adonai, “As for all My evil neighbors who strike at the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel—I am about to uproot them from their land and pluck the house of Judah from them.

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the word of Adonai, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 30:16

Yet all who devour you will be devoured, and all your foes—all of them— will go into captivity. Those plundering you will be plundered, and all preying on you I give as prey.

Jeremiah 50:7

Everyone finding them devoured them. Their foes said: ‘We’re not guilty!’ Instead, they sinned against Adonai, the habitation of justice—Adonai, the hope of their fathers.”

Joel 1:3

Tell your children about it— your children to their children, their children to another generation.

Amos 6:1

Oy ! You who are at ease in Zion, trusting in Samaria’s hill! Distinguished ones of the foremost of nations— to whom the house of Israel comes

Habakkuk 1:11

Then a wind sweeps through and passes on. He is guilty— This, his strength, is his god.”

Zechariah 1:15

and I am infuriated with the haughty nations. I was a little angry with them, but they furthered their own calamity.”

Zechariah 2:8

saying to him, ‘Run, speak to this young man saying: “Jerusalem will be inhabited as a village without walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it.

Numbers 18:12

All the finest olive oil, the finest new wine and grain they give to Adonai from their firstfruits, I have given them to you.

Romans 11:16

If the firstfruit is holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

Greet also the community that meets in their house. Greet Epaenetus whom I dearly love, who is the first fruit in Asia for Messiah.

Ephesians 1:4

He chose us in the Messiah 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 Adonai your God—from all the peoples on the face of the earth, Adonai has chosen you to be His treasured people.

Deuteronomy 26:19

that He will set you high above all the nations He has made, for praise, fame and honor; and that you are to be a holy people to Adonai your God, as He has promised.”

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to Adonai your God—from all the peoples on the face of the earth, Adonai your God has chosen you to be His treasured people.

James 1:18

By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from among mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb.