Jeremiah 24
KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 24 of 52
Chapter Summary
Under the type of good and bad figs, he foreshows the restoration of them that were in captivity, and the desolation of Zedekiah.
Key Hebrew Words
People & Context
The prophet to whom Jehovah shows the vision; he answers, declaring he sees figs (v3).
King of Babylon who had exiled Jeconiah and the rulers of Judah to Babylon (v1).
Son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, carried into exile to Babylon (v1).
King of Judah, likened to the bad figs Jehovah will reject (v8).
Former king of Judah, named as the father of the exiled Jeconiah (v1).
Timeline
After Jeconiah's exile, Jehovah shows Jeremiah two baskets of figs outside the temple. The good figs represent the exiles God will restore and give a new heart. The bad, inedible figs represent King Zedekiah and the survivors in Jerusalem and Egypt, doomed to sword, famine, and plague.
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