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Baskets
of Figs and the Returnees |
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| Jeremiah 24:1 |
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After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried
away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of
Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon,
the LORD showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD!
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| Jeremiah 24:2 |
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One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe
figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.
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| Jeremiah 24:3 |
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Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see,
Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very
bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness." |
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| Jeremiah 24:4 |
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Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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| Jeremiah 24:5 |
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"Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Like these
good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out
of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. |
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| Jeremiah 24:6 |
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'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and
I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow
them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. |
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| Jeremiah 24:7 |
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'I will give them a heart to know Me, for I
am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will
return to Me with their whole heart. |
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| Jeremiah 24:8 |
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'But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten
due to rottenness--indeed, thus says the LORD--so I will abandon Zedekiah king
of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land
and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt. |
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| Jeremiah 24:9 |
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'I will make them a terror and an evil for all
the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in
all places where I will scatter them. |
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| Jeremiah 24:10 |
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'I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence
upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their
forefathers.'" |
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