Jeremiah 2:14

The NET Bible®

"Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Is Israel a slave?Was he born into slavery?Why else has he become a prey?

Hebrew Names Version
Is Yisra'el a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?

King James Version
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

English Standard Version
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?

New American Standard Bible
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a servant born in the home? Why has he become plunder?

New Century Version
Have the people of Israel become slaves? Have they become like someone who was born a slave? Why were they taken captive?

Amplified Bible
"Is Israel a servant? Is he a slave by birth? Why has he become a captive and a prey?

World English Bible
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is Israel a seruaunt, or is hee borne in the house? why then is he spoiled?

Legacy Standard Bible
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn slave?Why has he become plunder?

Berean Standard Bible
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

Contemporary English Version
People of Israel, you weren't born slaves; you were captured in war.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Is Isra'el a slave, born into serfdom? If not, why has he become plunder?

Darby Translation
Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why is he become a spoil?

Easy-to-Read Version
"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?

George Lamsa Translation
Is Israel a servant? If he is a homeborn heir, why then is he plundered?

Good News Translation
"Israel is not a slave; he was not born into slavery. Why then do his enemies hunt him down?

Lexham English Bible
Is Israel a slave? Or a slave born in a house? Why has he become plunder?

Literal Translation
Is Israel a servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Is Israel a bonde seruaunt, or one of the housholde? Why is he then so spoyled?

American Standard Version
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?

Bible in Basic English
Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a prey?

King James Version (1611)
Is Israel a seruant? is he a home-borne slaue? why is he spoiled?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is Israel a bonde seruaunt, or one of the housholde? why is he the so spoyled?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?

English Revised Version
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he become a prey?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Israel is a boond man, ether is borun boonde?

Update Bible Version
Is Israel a slave? is he a home-born [slave]? why has he become a prey?

Webster's Bible Translation
[Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a home-born [slave]? why is he laid waste?

New King James Version
"Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave? Why is he plundered?

New Living Translation
"Why has Israel become a slave? Why has he been carried away as plunder?

New Life Bible
"Is Israel a servant? Is he born as a servant? Why can he be taken away?

New Revised Standard
Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become plunder?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Was Israel a servant? Born in the house, was he? Wherefore hath he become a prey?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey?

Revised Standard Version
"Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?

Young's Literal Translation
A servant [is] Israel? Is he a child of the house? Wherefore hath he been for a prey?

THE MESSAGE
"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?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Is Israel a slave? Or is he a homeborn servant? Why has he become a prey?

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ "Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off? ¹⁵ Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted. ¹⁶ Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel. ¹⁷ You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path. ¹⁸ What good will it do you then to go down to Egypt to seek help from the Egyptians? What good will it do you to go over to Assyria to seek help from the Assyrians? ¹⁹ Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me," says the Lord God who rules over all.

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

Genesis 10:11
From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 15:18
That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—

Genesis 25:18
His descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next to Egypt all the way to Asshur. They settled away from all their relatives.

Deuteronomy 1:7
Get up now, resume your journey, heading for the Amorite hill country, to all its areas including the arid country, the highlands, the Shephelah, the Negev, and the coastal plain—all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

Daniel 10:4
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month I was beside the great river, the Tigris.

Revelation 9:14
saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"

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.