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CHAPTER 24
The Two Baskets of Figs
_ 1. The vision of the two baskets of figs (Jeremiah 24:1) _
2. The vision interpreted (Jeremiah 24:4)
Jeremiah 24:1. Jeconiah, with the choicest of the nat
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THE GOOD AND BAD FIGS. The prophet sees (either in vision or
actuality; see on Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 1:13; _cf._ Amos 7:1, etc.)
baskets of good and bad figs respectively; Yahweh tells him that the...
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EVIL. Hebrew. _raa'._ App-44. Compare Jeremiah 29:17....
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F. The Vision of the Fig Baskets Jeremiah 24:1-10
The terminology the Lord showed me or caused me to see introduces a
prophetic vision. Chapter 24 contains such a vision. There are two
types of prophe...
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_THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, WHAT SEEST THOU, JEREMIAH? AND I SAID,
FIGS; THE GOOD FIGS, VERY GOOD; AND THE EVIL, VERY EVIL, THAT CANNOT
BE EATEN, THEY ARE SO EVIL._
No JFB commentary on these verses...
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THE TWO BASKETS OF FIGS
The evil figs were such of the people as had not been carried away
with Jehoiachin to Babylon after the first siege of Jerusalem, 597
b.c., but had failed to draw any warning...
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WHAT SEEST THOU, JEREMIAH? — The question is asked as if to force
the symbol as strongly as possible on the prophet’s mind, leaving
him to wait till another word of the Lord should come and reveal its...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗י מָֽה
־אַתָּ֤ה רֹאֶ
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CHAPTER VIII
BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS
Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1
"Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My
pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1
"Of what avail is straw instead...
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TWO BASKETS OF FIGS
Jeremiah 24:1-10
These two baskets represent the different, fates that overlook the
people at the fall of Jerusalem. The good figs in the first were those
who were taken to Babylo...
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Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah repeated three prophecies from
the past, the first being a vision after Jeconiah's (Jehoiachin's)
captivity, the second being a message delivered in the fourth yea...
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The date of this part of Jeremiah's prophecy is given, perhaps with a
view, that the reference made in it might be the stronger. Many of the
people were at this time in Babylon, carried away in the ca...
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In the last Lecture we began to explain the meaning of the vision
which the Prophet relates. We said that the miserable exiles whose
condition might have appeared to be the worst, are yet compared to...
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Two things attract our attention in chapter 24. First, submission to
the judgment of God when He executes it is the proof of intelligence
in His word-of real spirituality. WANT OF FAITH LEANS, NOT ON...
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THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME, WHAT SEEST THOU, JEREMIAH?.... This
question is put, in order that, upon his answer to it, he might have
an explication of the vision:
AND I SAID, FIGS; THE GOOD FIGS, VER...
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Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said,
Figs; the good figs very good and the evil very evil, that cannot be
eaten, they are so evil. The purpose of the question was to impr...
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A TYPE OF JUDAH'S FUTURE...
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God having caused the prophet to have such a visible object appear to
him, asked him what he saw as JEREMIAH 1:11....
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Jeremiah 24:3 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) see H7200 (H8802) Jeremiah
H3414 said H559 (H8799) Figs...
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THE TWO BASKETS OF FIGS - ZEDEKIAH AND JERUSALEM ARE FATED TO
DESTRUCTION AND EXILE (JEREMIAH 24:1).
The subsection opened with a report concerning the future of Zedekiah
and Jerusalem, and it now clo...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the figs. Judah's restoration, but not those of the
second deportation.
CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeconiah, Zedekiah.
CONCLUSION: The same providence which to some is a...
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Jeremiah 24:2. _One basket had very good figs._ This was emblematical
of the better sort of people, who were carried away under Jeconiah,
and sent to Babylon for their good. It is much the same with t...
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_One basket had very good figs._
TWO BASKETS OF FIGS
I. The same nation may contain two distinct characters, yet both may
be equally involved in a national visitation. There are laws of
retribution...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 24:3 The GOOD FIGS are the exiles.
⇐ ⇔...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. _Vide_ previous chapter. _Cf._ 2 Kings
24:10.
NATURAL HISTORY. “_Baskets of Figs:_” Vide _Natural History_ notes
on chaps. Jeremiah 5:17, Jeremiah 8:13. The “first r
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EXPOSITION
Again Jeremiah's ungrateful task is to take up an attitude of direct
opposition to the king (comp. Jeremiah 22:13), though, indeed,
Zedekiah personally is so weak and dependent on others th...
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Now in chapter 24.
The LORD showed me, and, behold, there were two baskets of figs set
before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
had carried away the captives Jeconiah the s...
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1 Samuel 9:9; Amos 7:8; Amos 8:2; Jeremiah 1:11; Matthew 25:32;...