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Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families 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.
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 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

1Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2"Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "I remember [earnestly] the lovingkindness and devotion of your youth, Your time of betrothal [like that of a bride during the early years in Egypt and again at Sinai], When you followed Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown. 3"Israel was holy [something set apart from ordinary purposes, consecrated] to the LORD, The first fruits of His harvest [in which no outsider was allowed to share]. All who ate of it [injuring Israel] became guilty; Evil came on them," says the LORD.'" 4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.5Thus says the LORD, "What injustice or unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me, That they have wandered far from Me And [habitually] walked after emptiness and futility and became empty? 6"They did not say, 'Where is the LORD Who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death], Through a land that no man passed through And where no man lived?' 7"I brought you into a plentiful land To eat its fruit and [enjoy] its good things. But you came and defiled My land And you made My inheritance repulsive. 8"[Even] the priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?' And those who deal with the law [given to Moses] did not know Me. The rulers and shepherds also transgressed against Me, And the prophets prophesied by [the authority and in the name of] Baal And walked after [idolatrous] things that did not benefit [them].

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 (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it; and God separated the light [distinguishing it] from the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He validated it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts (inhabitants).
Genesis 2:2
And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book (the written record, the history) of the generations of [the descendants of] Adam. When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness].
Genesis 10:1
These are the records of the generations (descendants) of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and the sons born to them after the flood:
Genesis 11:10
These are the records of the generations of Shem [from whom Abraham descended]. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
Genesis 25:12
Now these are the records of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham;

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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