The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Jeremiah 24
1 Yahweh showed me, and behold, two
baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s
temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the
son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the
princes of Judah, with the
craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem,
and had brought them to Babylon.
2 One basket had very good figs, like
the figs that are first-ripe; and the other
basket had very bad figs, which could not
be eaten, they were so bad.
3 Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you
see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good,
and the bad are very bad, so bad that they
can’t be eaten.”
4 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
5 “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like
these goodfigs, so I will regard the captives
of Judah, whomIhave sent out ofthis place
into the land of the Chaldeans, as good.
6 For I will set my eyes on them for good,
and I will bring them again to this land. I
will build them, and not pull them down. I
will plant them, and not pluck them up.
7 I will give themaheartto knowme,that
I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and
I will be their God; for they will return to
me with their whole heart.
8 “ ‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten,
they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So
I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah,
and his princes, and the remnant of
Jerusalem who remain in this land, and
those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
9 I will even give them up to be tossed
back and forth among all the kingdoms of
the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places
where I will drive them.
10 I will send the sword, the famine, and
the pestilence among them, until they are
consumed from off the land that I gave to
them and to their fathers.’ ”