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Text -- Jeremiah 24:1-10 (NET)
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Context
Good Figs and Bad Figs
24:1 The Lord showed me two baskets of figs sitting before his temple . This happened after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon deported Jehoiakim’s son , King Jeconiah of Judah . He deported him and the leaders of Judah , along with the craftsmen and metal workers , and took them to Babylon .
24:2 One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early . The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten .
24:3 The Lord said to me, “What do you see , Jeremiah ?” I answered , “I see figs . The good ones look very good . But the bad ones look very bad , so bad that they cannot be eaten .”
24:4 The Lord said to me,
24:5 “I, the Lord , the God of Israel , say : ‘The exiles whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon are like those good figs . I consider them to be good .
24:6 I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land . There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.
24:7 I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the Lord . I will be their God and they will be my people . For they will wholeheartedly return to me.’
24:8 “I, the Lord , also solemnly assert : ‘King Zedekiah of Judah , his officials , and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten .
24:9 I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified . I will make them an object of reproach , a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule , an example to be used in curses . That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
24:10 I will bring war , starvation , and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors .’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Jehoiachin |
CAPTIVITY |
Symbols and Similitudes |
Instruction |
MINGLED PEOPLE; (MIXED MULTITUDE) |
Israel |
Righteous |
BASKET |
FIG, FIG-TREE |
Zedekiah |
Fig Tree |
Ezekiel, Book of |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Regeneration |
KETTLE |
Dispersion |
Deportation |
Jeremiah |
Wisdom |
Wicked |
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NET Notes: Jer 24:1 See 2 Kgs 24:10-17 (especially vv. 14-16). Nebuchadnezzar left behind the poorest people of the land under the puppet king Zedekiah. Jeconiah has alre...
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NET Notes: Jer 24:8 Heb “Like the bad figs which cannot be eaten from badness [= because they are so bad] surely [emphatic כִּי, ki] so I re...
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NET Notes: Jer 24:9 Heb “I will make them for a terror for disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a proverb, for a taunt and a curse in a...
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