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Verse Jeremiah 24:7. _THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE_] I will renew my
_covenant_ with them, for _they will return to me with their whole
heart_....
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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 nation,...
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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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I WILL GIVE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 30:6).
THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:12)....
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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
g...
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And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and
they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall
return unto me with their whole heart.
I WILL GIVE THEM AN HEART T...
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24:7 God. (c-26) See Note, ch. 7.23....
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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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I WILL GIVE THEM AN HEART TO KNOW ME... — Of this also the history
of the return gives at least a partial proof. Whatever other faults
might be growing up, they never again fell into the apostasy from...
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וְ נָתַתִּי֩ לָהֶ֨ם לֵ֜ב לָ דַ֣עַת
אֹתִ֗י כִּ֚י אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וְ הָיוּ
־לִ֣י לְ...
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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 Babyl...
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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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And I will give them (c) an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD:
and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall
return to me with their whole heart.
(c) Which declares that m...
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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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_THE_ SUMMUM BONUM
‘An heart to know Me.’
Jeremiah 24:7
That is all we need. For we live by nature, that warped and distorted
nature of ours, under the strangest delusions about God.
I. FOR EXAMP...
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Here is added the main benefit, that God would not only restore the
captives, that they might dwell in the land of promise, but would also
change them inwardly; for except God gives us a conviction as...
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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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AND I WILL GIVE THEM AN HEART TO KNOW ME, THAT I [AM] THE LORD,....
God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in goodness and
truth, pardoning iniquity, transgression, and sin; the unchangea...
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And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and
they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall
return unto me with their whole heart.
Ver. 7. _And I will give th...
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_Thus saith the Lord God of Israel_ Here the Lord explains the parable
of the good figs, the figs _first ripe._ These represented the pious
captives who were sent first into captivity, as if they had...
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A TYPE OF JUDAH'S FUTURE...
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Under the term KNOW ME is here (as in many other texts) comprehended
faith, love, obedience, all those motions of the soul which rationally
should follow a right comprehending of God in men's knowledg...
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Jeremiah 24:7 give H5414 (H8804) heart H3820 know H3045 (H8800) LORD
H3068 people H5971 God H430 return H7725 (H8799) heart H3820
I will give - Jeremiah 31:33-34, Jeremiah 32:39; Deuteronomy 30:6;...
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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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_For I will set Mine eyes upon them for good, and l will bring them
again to this land._
GOD’S REGARD FOR HIS PEOPLE
I. The nature of God’s declaration respecting Himself, “I will set
Mine eves upon...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 24:7 I WILL GIVE THEM A HEART TO KNOW.
Saving knowledge of God (see Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 31:31; see note on
9:3) based on God’s sovereign grace. BE MY PEOPLE. Special
coven...
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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 ripe...
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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 Kings 8:46; 1 Samuel 7:3; 2 Chronicles 6:38; Deuteronomy 26:17;
Deuteronomy 30:2; Deuteronomy 30:6; Deuteronomy 4:29; Ezekiel 11:19;
Ezekiel 11:20;...