Jeremiah 2:14
¶ Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
¶ † Is Israel a seruant? is he a home-borne slaue? why is he spoiled?
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- †Hebrew wordingHeb. become a spoile.
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- Exodus 4:22Rank 1 from verse 14
- Ecclesiastes 2:7Rank 2 from verse 14
7I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
7†I got me seruants and maydens, and had seruants borne in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattell, aboue all that were in Ierusalem before me.
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1THUS saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
1¶ Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mothers diuorcement, whom I haue put away? or which of my creditours is it to whom I haue sold you? Behold, for your iniquities haue you solde your selues, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
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Jeremiah 2:14
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.
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One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
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1. Born in the land; native. 2. Born in a household; domestic.
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A person wholly subject to another's authority and service; one held in bondage.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of spoil, meaning to plunder, rob, strip, ruin, or deprive of what is possessed.
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13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
13*For my people haue committed two euils: they haue forsaken me, the fountaine of liuing waters, and hewed them out cisternes, broken cisternes that can hold no water.
14¶ Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
14¶ † Is Israel a seruant? is he a home-borne slaue? why is he spoiled?
Selected passage15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
15†The young lyons roared vpon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burnt without inhabitant.