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The complete fulfillment of this prophecy belongs to the Christian
Church. There is a close analogy between Jeremiah at the first
destruction of Jerusalem and our Lord at the second. There the good
fi...
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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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See introd. summary to section....
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_2. The meaning of the good figs_ (Jeremiah 24:4-7)
TRANSLATION
(4) Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Thus says the
LORD, the God of Israel: As these good figs, thus will I regard as
go...
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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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AGAIN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME. — The words seem to imply
an interval, during which the prophet was left to ponder over the
symbols that he had thus seen. At last “the word of the Lord came”...
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וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵ
אמֹֽר
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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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Here the Lord himself becomes the Preacher to the Prophet, and
explains. The bad figs, represented Zedekiah and his court, still in
the land, but against whom, the Lord would in his own appointed time...
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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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AGAIN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING. As follows; where an
explanation is given of the above vision, to which this is a
transition....
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ver. 4. _Again the word of the Lord._] _Transitio ad Anagogen:_ the
interpretation followeth, whereby will appear the different judgment
made of perso...
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A TYPE OF JUDAH'S FUTURE...
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Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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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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...