Jeremiah 24
24
Two Baskets of Figs
1Yahweh showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs placed before#Literally “to the face of” the temple of Yahweh—after Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen, and the smiths,#Hebrew “smith” from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon. 2The one basket had very good figs, like early figs,#Literally “the figs of the early ripened fruit” and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because of their bad quality. 3And Yahweh asked me, “What are you seeing, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs—the good figs, very good, and the bad figs, very bad, that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality.”
4Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,#Literally “to say” 5“Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles#Hebrew “exile” of Judah whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 6For I will set my eyes#Hebrew “eye” on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not annihilate them, and I will plant them and not uproot them. 7And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh, and they will be my people,#Literally “they shall be for me as a people” and I will be their God,#Literally “I will be for them as God” for they will return to me with the whole of their heart.
8But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality—for thus says Yahweh—so I will treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt. 9And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them. 10And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.’ ”#Or “fathers”
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Jeremiah 24
24
The Good Figs and the Bad Figs
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2 Kgs. 24:12; 2 Chr. 36:10 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem #Matt. 1:11; [ch. 22:18, 24, 28] Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with #ch. 29:2; 2 Kgs. 24:12, 14 the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, #Amos 8:1, 2two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. 2One basket had very good figs, #[Isa. 28:4] like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had #ch. 29:17very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. 3And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”
4Then the word of the Lord came to me: 5“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, #ch. 29:20whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 6#[Amos 9:4] I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. #ch. 12:15; 29:10 I will build them up, and not tear them down; #ch. 31:28; 42:10; [ch. 1:10; Amos 9:15]I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7#ch. 32:39; Deut. 30:6; Ezek. 11:19; 36:26, 27 I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, #See ch. 30:22; 31:33 and they shall be my people #See ch. 30:22; 31:33 and I will be their God, #ch. 29:13; Joel 2:12, 13for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
8“But thus says the Lord: Like #ver. 2; ch. 29:17 the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat #ch. 21:1 Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who #See ch. 43–44dwell in the land of Egypt. 9I will make them #See ch. 15:4 a horror#24:9 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be #ch. 29:18; 49:13; Neh. 2:17; Isa. 43:28 a reproach, #Deut. 28:37; 2 Chr. 7:20 a byword, #ch. 29:18; 49:13; Neh. 2:17; Isa. 43:28 a taunt, and #ch. 25:18; 26:6; 29:22; 2 Kgs. 22:19a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10And I will send #See ch. 14:12sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”
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