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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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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
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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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See introd. summary to section....
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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...
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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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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...
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וְ שִׁלַּ֣חְתִּי בָ֔ם אֶת ־הַ חֶ֖רֶב
אֶת
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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 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...
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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...
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_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...
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A TYPE OF JUDAH'S FUTURE...
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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...
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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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Jeremiah 24:10 send H7971 (H8765) sword H2719 famine H7458 pestilence
H1698 consumed H8552 (H8800) land H127 gav
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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...
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Ezekiel 14:12; Ezekiel 33:27; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 6:12; Eze