Jeremiah 24
The Lesson from the
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The LORD showed me,
and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple
of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrez'zar king of
Babylon had carried away captive Jeconi'ah the son of Jehoi'akim
king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and
smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 Kgs.
24.12-16 · 2
Chr. 36.10
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One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other
basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they
were so bad.
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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, they are
so evil.
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Thus saith the LORD,
the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them
that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this
place into the land of the Chalde'ans for their good.
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For I will set mine eyes upon them for
good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build
them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not
pluck them up.
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And I will give them a heart to know me,
that I am the LORD; and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with
their whole heart.
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And as the evil figs, which cannot be
eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedeki'ah the king of Judah, and
his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land,
and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
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and I will deliver them to be removed
into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to
be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places
whither I shall drive them.
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And I will send the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the
land that I gave unto them and to their
fathers.
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