Jeremiah 2:3

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Israel was holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.”

Cross References

Exodus 22:29

“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

Exodus 23:16

And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labours, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labours out of the field.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Jeremiah 12:14

The LORD says, “Concerning all my evil neighbours, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from amongst them.

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

Jeremiah 30:16

Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

Joel 1:3

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

Habakkuk 1:11

Then they sweep by like the wind and go on. They are indeed guilty, whose strength is their god.”

Zechariah 1:15

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

Zechariah 2:8

For the LORD of Hosts says: ‘For honour he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

Numbers 18:12

“I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to the LORD.

Romans 11:16

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 16:5

Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Messiah.

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect 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 people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, 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 a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

James 1:18

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits 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, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous 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 by Yeshua from amongst men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.