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 the true faith in God, which up to the time of the exile had been their besetting sin.
They shall be my people... — The prophet clearly remembers and reproduces the promise of Hosea 2:23.
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_....
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...
I WILL GIVE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 30:6). THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:12)....
_an heart to know me_ They shall be restored in a spiritual sense also, purified in heart by their adversity....
See introd. summary to section....
_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...
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...
24:7 God. (c-26) See Note, ch. 7.23....
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...
וְ נָתַתִּי֩ לָהֶ֨ם לֵ֜ב לָ דַ֣עַת אֹתִ֗י
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...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
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...
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...
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...
_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 EXAMPL...
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...
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 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...
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...
_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...
And I will give them an heart to know Me, that I am the Lord, the punishment of the Babylonian captivity directing their minds to the one true God, who could thus carry out His threats, so that they l...
A TYPE OF JUDAH'S FUTURE...
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...
Jeremiah 24:7 give H5414 (H8804) heart H3820 know H3045 (H8800) LORD H3068 people H5971 God H430 return...
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...
_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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 24:7 I WILL GIVE THEM A HEART TO KNOW. Saving knowledge of God (see Jeremiah 4:4;...
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...
1 Kings 8:46; 1 Samuel 7:3; 2 Chronicles 6:38; Deuteronomy 26:17;...