One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early.<n id="1" /> The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.

I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for<n id="1" /> their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> for eleven years. His mother&#8217;s name was Hamutal<n id="3" /> daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

<p class="poetry">The people of those nations<n id="1" /> are both stupid and foolish.p> <p class="poetry">Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Come back to me, my wayward sons,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;for I am your true master.<n id="1" /> If you do,<n id="2" /> I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion.

&#8220;Go to the Rechabite community.<n id="1" /> Invite them to come into one of the side rooms<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and offer them some wine to drink.&#8221;

Each of the pillars was about 27 feet<n id="1" /> high, about 18 feet<n id="2" /> in circumference, three inches<n id="3" /> thick, and hollow.

Jeremiah recorded<n id="1" /> on one scroll all the judgments<n id="2" /> that would come upon Babylon &#8211; all these prophecies<n id="3" /> written about Babylon.

The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple (including the two pillars, the large bronze basin called &#8220;The Sea,&#8221; the twelve bronze bulls under &#8220;The Sea,&#8221; and the movable stands<n id="1" />) was too heavy to be weighed.

The bronze top of one pillar was about seven and one-half feet<n id="1" /> high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its pomegranate-shaped ornaments was like it.

From the city he took an official who was in charge of the soldiers, seven of the king&#8217;s advisers who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens<n id="1" /> for military service, and sixty citizens who were discovered in the middle of the city.