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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 24:4

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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See also Jeremiah 24:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵ אמֹֽר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A TYPE OF JUDAH'S FUTURE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 24:4 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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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