Jeremiah 24:2 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 24:2

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.

6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and ^aI will bring them back to this land; ^bI will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

7 Then I will give them ^aa heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be ^bMy people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me ^cwith their whole heart.

8 ‘And as the bad ^afigs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the ^bresidue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and ^cthose who dwell in the land of Egypt.

9 I will deliver them to ^atrouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, ^bto be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are¹ consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”

Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 24:2

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American Standard Version
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 bad.

Amplified® Bible
One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Contemporary English Version
One basket was full of very good figs that ripened early, and the other was full of rotten figs that were not fit to eat.

Darby English Version
One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.

Good News Bible
The first basket contained good figs, those that ripen early; the other one contained bad figs, too bad to eat.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
One 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.

New International Version
One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

New King James Version
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 bad.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which people could not eat due to rottenness.

Revised Standard Version
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Young's Literal Translation
In the one basket `are' figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket `are' figs very bad, that are not eaten for badness.

New English Translation
One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early.¹ The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.

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