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Douay-Rheims Bible

Jeremiah 2:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophets;   Scofield Reference Index - Jeremiah;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jews, Judaism;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah (2);  

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®
The word of the Lord came to me:
Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
King James Version
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
Amplified Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer, the woorde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the word of Yahweh came to me saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's message came to me:
George Lamsa Translation
MOREOVER the word of the LORD came upon me, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord told me
Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Literal Translation
And was the Word of Jehovah to me, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, the worde of the LORDE comaunded me thus:
American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
King James Version (1611)
Moreouer, the word of the Lord came to me, saying;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he said, Thus saith the Lord,
English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to me. He said:
New King James Version
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Living Translation
The Lord gave me another message. He said,
New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying;
Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me. It went like this: "Get out in the streets and call to Jerusalem, ‘ God 's Message! I remember your youthful loyalty, our love as newlyweds. You stayed with me through the wilderness years, stuck with me through all the hard places. Israel was God 's holy choice, the pick of the crop. Anyone who laid a hand on her would soon wish he hadn't!'" God 's Decree.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the word of the LORD came to me saying,

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have remembered thee, pitying thy youth, and the love of thy espousals, when thou followedst me in the desert, in a land that is not sown. 3 Israel is holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase: all they that devour him offend: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord. 4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel: 5 Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 6 And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt? 7 And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination. 8 The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the word: Jeremiah 1:11, Jeremiah 7:1, Jeremiah 23:28, Ezekiel 7:1, Hebrews 1:1, 2 Peter 1:21

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 16:1 - The word Ezekiel 22:3 - and maketh Luke 3:2 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:3
And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.
Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
Exodus 31:17
Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying. Here begins the book, and Jeremiah's first sermon; and the following contains the message he was sent with, to which the preceding chapter is only a preface or introduction. The Targum calls it,

"the word of the prophecy from before the Lord.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moreover - literally, And. Notice the connection between Jeremiah’s call and first prophecy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

God expresses his continued regard for his people, long since

chosen, 1-3.

He then expostulates with them on their ungrateful and worse

than heathen return to his regard, 4-11;

at which even the inanimate creation must be astonished,

12, 13.

After this their guilt is declared to be the sole cause of the

calamities which their enemies had power to inflict on them,

14-17.

They are upbraided for their alliances with idolatrous

countries, 18, 19;

and for their strong propensity to idolatry, notwithstanding

all the care and tender mercy of God, 20-29.

Even the chastenings of the Almighty have produced in this

people no repentance, 30.

The chapter concludes with compassionately remonstrating

against their folly and ingratitude in revolting so deeply from

God, and with warning them of the fearful consequences, 31, 37.

NOTES ON CHAP. II


 
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