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Jeremiah 2:3

The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 2:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Israel was holiness, etc. Israel was a consecrated people (comp. , ; ; ; ). Isaiah, fond as he is of the phrase "Israel's Holy One," does not expressly enforce the correlative truth, as Jeremiah does here.

The first-fruits of his increase; rather, his firstfruits of increase. Israel is compared to the firstfruits (reshith) of the land, which were devoted to the house of the Lord (; , ).

So in , the title given him is "the chief [margin, 'firstfruits'] of the nations" (in , a synonymous and cognate word, rosh, takes the place of reshith for "chief"). All that devour him shall offend; rather, all that ate him incurred guilt, or became guilty of a trespass.

Foreigners were forbidden to eat of consecrated things; by breaking this law they became guilty of a "trespass," having invaded the rights of Jehovah (Le 22:10, 15, 16). The word for "trespass" is the same as that rendered "guilt."

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