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New Life Version

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the Word of the Lord, O family of Jacob, and all the families of the people 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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family 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 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 The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 "Go and speak so those in Jerusalem will hear, ‘This is what the Lord says: "I remember how you loved Me when you were young. Your love was as a bride. I remember how you followed Me in the desert, through a land that had not been planted. 3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of His gathering. All who ate of it (Israel) were guilty, and trouble came upon them," says the Lord.'" 4 Hear the Word of the Lord, O family of Jacob, and all the families of the people of Israel. 5 The Lord says, "What wrong did your fathers find in Me, that they turned so far from Me and followed false gods? 6 They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord Who brought us up from the land of Egypt? Where is He Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and deep holes, through a land without water and with much trouble, through a land that no one traveled and where no man lived?' 7 And I brought you into a rich land to eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and made My land unclean. You made the land I gave you sinful and hated. 8 The religious leaders did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?' And those who worked with the Law did not know Me. The rulers sinned against Me. And the men of God spoke by the false god of Baal, and went after things that did not help.

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 from nothing the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good. He divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
And God wanted good to come to them, saying, "Give birth to many. Grow in number. Fill the earth and rule over it. Rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that He had made and it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth were completed, and all that is in them.
Genesis 2:2
On the seventh day God ended His work which He had done. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the children of Adam and of their children's children. When God made man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 10:1
These are the families of Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and of their families. Sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 11:10
These are the children of Shem. When Shem had lived 100 years, he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
Genesis 25:12
These are the children and their children's children of Abraham's son Ishmael, who was born to Abraham and Hagar, who was Sarah's woman servant.

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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