Jeremiah 24 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken Jeconiah [who was also called Coniah and Jehoiachin] the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah [along] with the craftsmen and smiths into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, the LORD showed me [in a vision] two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD.

Jer 24:2

Jer 24:2One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are the first to ripen; but the other basket had very bad figs, so rotten that they could not be eaten.

Jer 24:3

Jer 24:3Then 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, so rotten that they cannot be eaten.”

Jer 24:4

Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Jer 24:5

Jer 24:5“Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent from this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

Jer 24:6

Jer 24:6‘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 overwhelm them, and I will plant them and not uproot them.

Jer 24:7

Jer 24:7‘I will give them a heart to know Me, [understanding fully] that 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.

Jer 24:8

‘And as for the bad figs, which are so rotten that they cannot be eaten,’ surely thus says the LORD, ‘so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and those who live in the land of Egypt.

Jer 24:9

Jer 24:9‘I will make them a focus of ridicule and disappointment [tossed back and forth] among all the kingdoms of the earth, a [notorious] disgrace, a byword, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

Jer 24:10

Jer 24:10‘I will send the sword, famine and virulent disease among them until they are consumed from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.’”

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Jeremiah 24 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

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