Jeremiah 24 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

After^H310 Nebuchadnezzar^H5019 king^H4428 of Babylon^H894 had taken^H1540 into^H1540 exile^H1540 Jeconiah^H3204 the son^H1121 of Jehoiakim^H3079, king^H4428 of Judah^H3063, and the officials^H8269 of Judah^H3063 with the craftsmen^H2796 and metalworkers^H4525 from Jerusalem^H3389 and had brought^H935 them to Babylon^H894, the LORD^H3068 showed^H7200 me: behold^H2009, two^H8147 baskets^H1731 of figs^H8384 placed^H5975 before^H6440 the temple^H1964 of the LORD^H3068.

Jer 24:2

Jer 24:2One 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.

Jer 24:3

Jer 24:3Then the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs: the good figs are very good, and the bad ones, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

Jer 24:4

Then the word^H1697 of the LORD^H3068 came^H1961 to me, saying^H559,

Jer 24:5

Jer 24:5“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘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.

Jer 24:6

Jer 24:6‘For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not uproot them.

Jer 24:7

Jer 24:7‘I will also 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 wholeheartedly.

Jer 24:8

‘But like the bad^H7451 figs^H8384 which^H834 cannot^H3808 be eaten^H398 due^H4480 to rottenness^H7455,’ indeed^H3588, this^H3541 is^H3541 what^H3541 the LORD^H3068 says^H559, ‘so^H3651 will I give^H5414 up^H5414 Zedekiah^H6667 king^H4428 of Judah^H3063 and his officials^H8269, and the remnant^H7611 of Jerusalem^H3389 who remain^H7604 in this^H2088 land^H776, and the ones who live^H3427 in the land^H776 of Egypt^H4714.

Jer 24:9

Jer 24:9‘I will make them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all the places where I will scatter them.

Jer 24:10

Jer 24:10‘And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague upon them until they are eliminated from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”

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Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

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