Jeremiah 2:2-4

Contemporary English Version

²to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that he had said:

When you were my young bride,
you loved me and followed me
    through the barren desert.
³You belonged to me alone,
like the first part of the harvest,
    and I severely punished
    those who mistreated you.

⁴Listen, people of Israel,^[a]

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Footnotes

2.4 Israel: After the nation was divided, the northern kingdom was called “Israel,” and the southern kingdom was called “Judah” (see 1 Kings 12.1-20). In 722 b.c. the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom, and Judah was all that was left. And so in the book of Jeremiah the name “Israel” is most often used of the southern kingdom.