Jeremiah 2:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Israel was set apart to the LORD; they were like the first fruits of a harvest to him. All who tried to devour them were punished; disaster came upon them,” says the LORD.

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  • Jas 1:18 : 18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
  • Rev 14:4 : 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 were redeemed from humanity as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb,
  • Isa 41:11 : 11 Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
  • Jer 50:7 : 7 All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said,‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture. They have sinned against the LORD in whom their ancestors trusted.’
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
  • Jer 12:14 : 14 “I, the LORD, also have something to say concerning the wicked nations who surround my land and have attacked and plundered the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. I say:‘I will uproot the people of those nations from their land and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there.
  • Jer 30:16 : 16 But all who destroyed you will be destroyed. All your enemies will go into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered. I will cause those who pillaged you to be pillaged.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.
  • Exod 4:22-23 : 22 You must say to Pharaoh,‘This is what the LORD has said,“Israel is my son, my firstborn, 23 and I said to you,‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
  • Deut 26:19 : 19 Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.
  • Ps 81:14-15 : 14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries.” 15 (May those who hate the LORD cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)
  • Ps 105:14-15 : 14 He let no one oppress them; he disciplined kings for their sake, 15 saying,“Don’t touch my chosen ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”
  • Ps 105:25-36 : 25 He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants. 26 He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. 27 They executed his miraculous signs among them, and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham. 28 He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders. 29 He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish. 30 Their land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the rooms of their kings. 31 He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory. 32 He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land. 33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory. 34 He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers. 35 They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields. 36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.
  • Exod 22:29 : 29 “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.
  • Exod 23:16 : 16 “You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.
  • Num 18:12 : 12 “All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the LORD, I have given to you.
  • Joel 1:3 : 3 Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
  • Joel 1:7-8 : 7 They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare. 8 A Call to Lament Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
  • Amos 6:1 : 1 The Party is over for the Rich Woe to those who live in ease in Zion, to those who feel secure on Mount Samaria. They think of themselves as the elite class of the best nation. The family of Israel looks to them for leadership.
  • Zech 1:15 : 15 But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted. I was a little displeased with them, but they have only made things worse for themselves.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you– for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
  • Zech 12:2-4 : 2 “I am about to make Jerusalem a cup that brings dizziness to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged. 3 Moreover, on that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy burden for all the nations, and all who try to carry it will be seriously injured; yet all the peoples of the earth will be assembled against it. 4 On that day,” says the LORD,“I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with madness. I will pay close attention to the house of Judah, but will strike all the horses of the nations with blindness.
  • Zech 14:20-21 : 20 On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription“HOLY TO THE LORD.” The cooking pots in the LORD’s temple will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar. 21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Acts 9:4-5 : 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 So he said,“Who are you, Lord?” He replied,“I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.
  • Rom 16:5 : 5 Also greet the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.

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