Verse Jeremiah 24:10. _I WILL SEND THE SWORD_] Many of them fell by sword and famine in the war with the Chaldeans, and many more by such means afterwards. The first received their captivity as a cor...
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...
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
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...
THE SWORD, THE FAMINE, AND THE PESTILENCE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:25; Leviticus 26:26; Deuteronomy 28:21). App-92. THE FAMINE. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagin
The fresh captivity shall be preceded by the same horrors as before (see on Jeremiah 15:2). Those who are represented by the evil figs were thus, still dwelling in the land, to be wasted by famine, pe...
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3. _The meaning of the bad figs_ (Jeremiah 24:8-10) TRANSLATION (8) But as the bad figs which were so bad they could not be eaten, surely thus says the LORD: Thus will I make Zedekiah king of Judah a...
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...
THE SWORD, THE FAMINE, AND THE PESTILENCE. — The three forms of suffering are grouped together, as in Jeremiah 14:12 and Ezekiel 14:21. The two latter followed almost inevitably in the wake of the fir...
וְ שִׁלַּ֣חְתִּי בָ֔ם אֶת ־הַ חֶ֖רֶב אֶת
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...
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...
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...
REFLECTIONS I BEG the Reader to make due reflections on the contents of this short but most interesting Chapter, and he will find cause in making application of what is here said, in reference to the...
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...
He confirms the former verse, — that God would then with extreme rigor punish them, by allowing the city and the inhabitants who remained, to be given up to the will of their enemies. And Jeremiah sti...
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...
AND I WILL SEND THE SWORD, THE FAMINE, AND THE PESTILENCE, AMONG THEM,.... Meaning not in other lands, where they should be driven, but while in their own land, by which many should perish; and the r...
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. Ver. 10. _And I will send the sword._] So Je...
_As the evil figs so will I give Zedekiah_ Or rather, _so will I make_ Zedekiah, as אתן should be rendered here, and as the same verb is rendered Jeremiah 29:17. _And they that dwell in the land of Eg...
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, the great scourges of all times, AMONG THEM, TILL THEY BE CONSUMED FROM OFF THE LAND, exterminated, extirpated from the Land of Promise, THAT...
A TYPE OF JUDAH'S FUTURE...
Many of them shall not live to be carried into captivity, but shall die miserably in their own land, if not by the enemies _sword_, yet by the _famine_ and the _pestilence_, which two things ordinaril...
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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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...