Jeremiah 24:1
This was the exile in which Daniel was taken away. Nebuchadnezzar took away the cream of the crop the first time he came through.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
How to Survive Exile
The Sign of Two Baskets of Figs
1 The aLord showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar bking of Babylon had carried away captive cJeconiah 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 abad.
3 Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”
4 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I1 acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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