JEREMIAH CHAPTER 24 Under the type of good and bad figs, Jeremiah 24:1-3, he foreshoweth the return of some from captivity, Jeremiah 24:4-7, and the ruin of Zedekiah and the rest, Jeremiah 24:8-10. The sum of what God by his prophet revealeth in this chapter is, that he would deal more graciously with those carried into captivity with Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, of which read 2 Kings 24:12 2 Chronicles 36:10, than with those that should afterward be carried into captivity with Zedekiah. This the prophet hath revealed to him ill a vision of two baskets of figs, as followeth. Some think these two baskets of figs were such as the people had brought for their first-fruits, because they are mentioned as set before the temple; but this might be no more than a vision, or all appearance of two baskets. The time of this vision was some time betwixt the carrying away of Jeconiah, of which we read 2 Kings 24:12, &c.; 2 Chronicles 36:10, and the carrying away of Zedekiah his uncle, which was eleven years after. In 2 Kings 24:16, there is a particular mention of the king of Babylon's carrrying away the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand.
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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.