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Jeremiah 2:14
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Is Israel a slave?Was he born into slavery?Why else has he become a prey?
Is Yisra'el a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a servant born in the home? Why has he become plunder?
Have the people of Israel become slaves? Have they become like someone who was born a slave? Why were they taken captive?
"Is Israel a servant? Is he a slave by birth? Why has he become a captive and a prey?
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?
Is Israel a seruaunt, or is hee borne in the house? why then is he spoiled?
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn slave?Why has he become plunder?
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
People of Israel, you weren't born slaves; you were captured in war.
"Is Isra'el a slave, born into serfdom? If not, why has he become plunder?
Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why is he become a spoil?
"Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born a slave, was he? Then why did the enemy carry him away as a captive?
Is Israel a servant? If he is a homeborn heir, why then is he plundered?
"Israel is not a slave; he was not born into slavery. Why then do his enemies hunt him down?
Is Israel a slave? Or a slave born in a house? Why has he become plunder?
Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey?
Is Israel a bonde seruaunt, or one of the housholde? Why is he then so spoyled?
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?
Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?
Is Israel a seruant? is he a home-borne slaue? why is he spoiled?
Is Israel a bonde seruaunt, or one of the housholde? why is he the so spoyled?
Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he become a prey?
Whether Israel is a boond man, ether is borun boonde?
Is Israel a slave? is he a home-born [slave]? why has he become a prey?
[Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a home-born [slave]? why is he laid waste?
"Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?
"Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why is he plundered?
"Why has Israel become a slave? Why has he been carried away as plunder?
"Is Israel a servant? Is he born as a servant? Why can he be taken away?
Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become plunder?
Was Israel a servant? Born in the house, was he? Wherefore hath he become a prey?
Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey?
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?
A servant [is] Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?
"Isn't Israel a valued servant, born into a family with place and position? So how did she end up a piece of meat fought over by snarling and roaring lions? There's nothing left of her but a few old bones, her towns trashed and deserted. Egyptians from the cities of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken your skulls. And why do you think all this has happened? Isn't it because you walked out on your God just as he was beginning to lead you in the right way?
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn servant? Why has he become a prey?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Israel: Exodus 4:22, Isaiah 50:1
he a homeborn: Genesis 15:3, Ecclesiastes 2:7
spoiled: Heb. become a spoil
Reciprocal: Exodus 21:4 - shall be her Jeremiah 9:19 - we are
Cross-References
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates;
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Asshur: over against all his brethren he did settle.
turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.
And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Tigris,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Is Israel a servant?.... That he does not abide in the house, in his own land, but is carried captive, becomes subject to others, and is used as a slave; so the Targum,
"as a servant;''
is he not the Lord's first born? are not the people of Israel called the children of the living God? how come they then to be treated not as children, as free men, but as servants? this cannot be owing to any breach of covenant or promise on God's part, or to the failure of the blessing of national adoption bestowed on them; but to some sin or sins of theirs, which have brought them into this miserable condition:
is he a home born slave? or born in the house, of the handmaid, and so in the power of the master of the family in whose house he was born,
Exodus 21:4 or the sense is, either Israel is a servant,
or a son of the family d, as some render the words; not the former, being not only the son of a free woman, but Jehovah's firstborn; if the latter,
why is he spoiled? why is he delivered up to the spoilers? as the Targum; why should he be given up into the hands of the Babylonians, and become their prey? is it usual for fathers to suffer their children, or those born in their house, to be so used? some reason must be given for it.
d יליד בית "filius familias", Munster.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It was Israel’s glory to be Yahweh’s servant Jeremiah 30:10, and slaves born in the house were more prized than those bought with money as being more faithful Genesis 14:14. Cannot Yahweh guard His own household? How happens it that a member of so powerful a family is spoiled? In the next verse the prophet gives the reason. Israel is a runaway slave, who has deserted the family to which he belongs by right of birth, and thereby brought upon himself trouble and misery.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 2:14. Is Israel a servant? — Is he a slave purchased with money, or a servant born in the family? He is a son himself. If so, then, why is he spoiled? Not because God has not shown him love and kindness; but because he forsook God, turned to and is joined with idols.
