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Brenton's Septuagint

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   Jews, Judaism;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah (2);   Scripture;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judges, Period of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 30;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacoband all families of the house of Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
Hear you the word of the LORD, O house of Ya`akov, and all the families of the house of Yisra'el:
King James Version
Hear ye the word of the Lord , O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
English Standard Version
Hear the word of the Lord , O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
Hear the word of the LORD, house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
New Century Version
Hear the word of the Lord , family of Jacob, all you family groups of Israel.
Amplified Bible
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
World English Bible
Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare ye the word of the Lord, O house of Iaakob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
Contemporary English Version
Listen, people of Israel,
Complete Jewish Bible
Hear the word of Adonai , house of Ya‘akov and all families in the house of Isra'el;
Darby Translation
Hear the word of Jehovah, house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
Family of Jacob, hear the Lord 's message. Tribes of Israel, listen.
George Lamsa Translation
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Good News Translation
Listen to the Lord 's message, you descendants of Jacob, you tribes of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.
Literal Translation
Hear the Word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare therfore the worde of the LORDE, O thou house of Iacob, and all the generacion of the house of Israel.
American Standard Version
Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel;
King James Version (1611)
Heare ye the word of the Lord, O house of Iacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare therfore the worde of the Lord O thou house of Iacob, and all the generations of the house of Israel.
English Revised Version
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The hous of Jacob, and alle the lynagis of the hous of Israel, here ye the word of the Lord.
Update Bible Version
Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
Webster's Bible Translation
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
New English Translation
Now listen to what the Lord has to say, you descendants of Jacob, all you family groups from the nation of Israel.
New King James Version
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.
New Living Translation
Listen to the word of the Lord , people of Jacob—all you families of Israel!
New Life Bible
Hear the Word of the Lord, O family of Jacob, and all the families of the people of Israel.
New Revised Standard
Hear the word of the Lord , O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear ye the word of Yahweh O house of Jacob, And all the families of the house of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel:
Revised Standard Version
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel.
THE MESSAGE
Hear God 's Message, House of Jacob! Yes, you—House of Israel! God 's Message: "What did your ancestors find fault with in me that they drifted so far from me, Took up with Sir Windbag and turned into windbags themselves? It never occurred to them to say, ‘Where's God , the God who got us out of Egypt, Who took care of us through thick and thin, those rough-and-tumble wilderness years of parched deserts and death valleys, A land that no one who enters comes out of, a cruel, inhospitable land?'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

Contextual Overview

1 And he said, Thus saith the Lord, 2 I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals, 3 in following the Holy One of Israel, saith the Lord, Israel was the holy people to the Lord, and the first-fruits of his increase: al that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord. 4 Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel. 5 Thus saith the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain? 6 And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there? 7 And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 8 The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hear ye: Jeremiah 5:21, Jeremiah 7:2, Jeremiah 13:15, Jeremiah 19:3, Jeremiah 34:4, Jeremiah 44:24-26, Isaiah 51:1-4, Hosea 4:1, Micah 6:1

all the families: Jeremiah 31:1, Jeremiah 33:24

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:19 - Hear thou 2 Chronicles 18:18 - hear the word Psalms 50:7 - Hear Isaiah 5:3 - judge Jeremiah 10:1 - General Jeremiah 36:2 - against Israel Micah 2:7 - named Acts 2:36 - all

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.
Genesis 2:2
And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.
Genesis 5:1
This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 11:10
And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
Genesis 25:12
And these are the generations of Ismael the son of Abraam, whom Agar the Egyptian the hand-maid of Sarrha bore to Abraam.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. The Lord, by the prophet, having observed his great kindness to this people, what they were unto him, and what a regard he had for them, proceeds to upbraid them with their ingratitude, and requires an attention to what he was about to say; all are called upon, because, all were guilty. This respects the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the several families in them. The ten tribes had been long carried captive.


 
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