“ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ”
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...
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...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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...
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 warni...
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 cam...
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1-40 , Jeremiah 24:1-10 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail i...
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...
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 ye...
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 tim...
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.
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 per...
Vision of the Good and Bad Figs; Promises and Threatenings. B. C. 599. 1 The L ORD shew...
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Two Baskets of Figs - Zedekiah And Jerusalem Are Fated To Destruction And Exile ( Jeremiah 24:1-10 ). The subsection opened with a report concerning the future of Zedekiah and Jerusalem, and i...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. Vide previous chapter. Cf. 2 Kings 24:10-12 . Natural History. “ Baskets of Figs: ” Vide Natural History notes on chaps. Jeremiah 5:17 , Jeremiah 8:13 . The...
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 wit...
EXPOSITION Again Jeremiah's ungrateful task is to take up an attitude of direct opposition to the king (comp. Jeremiah 22:13-24 ), though, indeed, Zedekiah personally is so weak and dependent o...
A Type of Judah's Future