Jeremiah 24:1

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.¹

Jeremiah 52:31-34

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Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth² day of the twelfth month,³ Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned⁴ King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. 52:32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than⁵ the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 52:33 Jehoiachin⁶ took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life. 52:34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

Jeremiah 52:2

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52:2 He did what displeased the Lord⁷ just as Jehoiakim had done.

Jeremiah 25:27-30

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25:27 Then the Lord said to me,⁸ “Tell them that the Lord God of Israel who rules over all⁹ says,¹⁰ ‘Drink this cup¹¹ until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up.¹² For I will send wars sweeping through you.’¹³ 25:28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord who rules over all says¹⁴ ‘You most certainly must drink it!¹⁵ 25:29 For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own.¹⁶ So how can you possibly avoid being punished?¹⁷ You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord who rules over all,¹⁸ affirm it!’¹⁹

25:30 “Then, Jeremiah,²⁰ make the following prophecy²¹ against them:

‘Like a lion about to attack,²² the Lord will roar from the heights of heaven;

from his holy dwelling on high he will roar loudly.

He will roar mightily against his land.²³

He will shout in triumph like those stomping juice from the grapes²⁴

against all those who live on the earth.

[24:1] ¹sn 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 already been referred to earlier in 13:18; 22:25-26. The deportation referred to here occurred in 597 b.c. and included the priest Ezekiel.

[52:31] ²sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31] ³sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31] ⁴tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[52:32] ⁵tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of

[52:33] ⁶tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.

[52:2] ⁷tn Heb “what was evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[25:27] ⁸tn The words “Then the Lord said to me” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity, to connect this part of the narrative with vv. 15, 17 after the long intervening list of nations who were to drink the cup of God’s wrath in judgment.

[25:27] ⁹tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.”

[25:27] ¹⁰tn Heb “Tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord….’” The translation is intended to eliminate one level of imbedded quotation marks to help avoid confusion.

[25:27] ¹¹tn The words “this cup” are not in the text but are implicit to the metaphor and the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[25:27] ¹²tn Heb “Drink, and get drunk, and vomit and fall down and don’t get up.” The imperatives following drink are not parallel actions but consequent actions. For the use of the imperative plus the conjunctive “and” to indicate consequent action, even intention see GKC 324-25 §110.f and compare usage in 1 Kgs 22:12; Prov 3:3b-4a.

[25:27] ¹³tn Heb “because of the sword that I will send among you.” See the notes on 2:16 for explanation.

[25:28] ¹⁴tn Heb “Tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord…’” The translation is intended to eliminate one level of imbedded quote marks to help avoid confusion.

[25:28] ¹⁵tn The translation attempts to reflect the emphatic construction of the infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb which is here an obligatory imperfect. (See Joüon 2:371-72 §113.m and 2:423 §123.h, and compare usage in Gen 15:13.)

[25:29] ¹⁶tn Heb “which is called by my name.” See translator’s note on 7:10 for support.

[25:29] ¹⁷tn This is an example of a question without the formal introductory particle following a conjunctive vav introducing an opposition. (See Joüon 2:609 §161.a.) It is also an example of the use of the infinitive before the finite verb in a rhetorical question involving doubt or denial. (See Joüon 2:422-23 §123.f, and compare usage in Gen 37:8.)

[25:29] ¹⁸tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.”

[25:29] ¹⁹tn Heb “Oracle of Yahweh of armies.”

[25:30] ²⁰tn The word “Jeremiah” is not in the text. It is supplied in the translation to make clear who is being addressed.

[25:30] ²¹tn Heb “Prophesy against them all these words.”

[25:30] ²²tn The words “like a lion about to attack” are not in the text but are implicit in the metaphor. The explicit comparison of the Lord to a lion is made at the end of the passage in v. 38. The words are supplied in the translation here for clarity.

[25:30] ²³sn The word used here (Heb “his habitation”) refers to the land of Canaan which the Lord chose to make his earthly dwelling (Exod 15:13) and which was the dwelling place of his chosen people (Jer 10:25; Isa 32:18). Judgment would begin at the “house of God” (v. 29; 1 Pet 4:17) but would extend to the rest of the earth (v. 29).

[25:30] ²⁴sn The metaphor shifts from God as a lion to God as a mighty warrior (Jer 20:11; Isa 42:13; Zeph 3:17) shouting in triumph over his foes. Within the metaphor is a simile where the warrior is compared to a person stomping on grapes to remove the juice from them in the making of wine. The figure will be invoked later in a battle scene where the sounds of joy in the grape harvest are replaced by the sounds of joy of the enemy soldiers (Jer 48:33). The picture is drawn in more gory detail in Isa 63:1-6.