The Lord showed me, and, behold, as Jeremiah was vouchsafed this strange vision, two baskets of figs were set before the Temple of the Lord, in the place which was set apart for offerings of this kind, Cf Amos 7:1-4; Amos 7:7, after that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, the rulers and nobles, the mighty of the land, with the carpenters and smiths, the craftsmen skilled in the making of weapons, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, an act which so weakened the power of the Jews as to make it practically impossible for them to prepare for war. Cf 2 Kings 24:14-17. This incident evidently happened at the beginning of Zedekiah's reign, when the country had been reduced to a condition of vassalage to the Chaldeans.
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Jeremiah 24:1
1 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.