Thematic Bible: Basket of fruit

The Lord Jehovah showed me a basket of summer fruit. He said: Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Jehovah said to me: The end has come to my people Israel. I will spare them no longer.

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away captive Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah. He also captured the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. Then Jehovah showed me two baskets of figs set before the Temple of Jehovah! One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because they were rotten. Then Jehovah said to me: What do you see, Jeremiah? I said: Figs. The good figs are very good. The bad figs are very bad. They cannot be eaten because they are rotten.