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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 Je...
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...
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,...
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 Jer...
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 h...
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...
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 go...
Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah repeated three prophecies from the past, the first being a vision after Jeconiah's (Jehoiachin's) captivity, the...
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 aga...
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, wher...
Vision of the Good and Bad Figs; Promises and Threatenings. B. C. 599....
The Two Baskets of Figs - Zedekiah And Jerusalem Are Fated To Destruction And Exile ( Jeremiah 24:1-10 ). The subsection opened with a report conc...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. Vide previous chapter. Cf. 2 Kings 24:10-12 . Natural History. “ Baskets of Figs: ” Vide Natural History not...
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...
EXPOSITION Again Jeremiah's ungrateful task is to take up an attitude of direct opposition to the king (comp. Jeremiah 22:13-24 ), though, inde...
A Type of Judah's Future
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,