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Themes in Jeremiah 24

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Themes in Jeremiah 24

Jeremiah 24:1 (show verse)

Yahweh showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs placed {before} the temple of Yahweh--after Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, from Jerusalem and had brought them [to] Babylon.

Arts and crafts » Names of various » Carpenters
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Smiths, workers in metals
Carpentry » Carpenters
Fig tree » Fruit of » Gathered and kept in baskets
Jehoiachin » Called jeconiah
Jeremiah » The prophet » Time of his prophecies
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Smith » Jewish, carried away captive to babylon
Symbols and similitudes » Basket of fruit

Jeremiah 24:2 (show verse)

The one basket [had] very good figs, like {early figs}, and the other basket [had] very bad figs that could not be eaten because of [their] bad quality.

Fig tree » Jeremiah's parable of
Fig tree » Fruit of » First ripe esteemed
Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (bad,) of wicked men
Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (good,) of saints
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Righteous » Compared with » Good figs
compared to Saints » Good figs
Symbols and similitudes » Basket of fruit

Jeremiah 24:3 (show verse)

And Yahweh asked me, "What [are] you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs--the good figs, very good, and the bad [figs], very bad, that cannot be eaten because of [their] bad quality."

Fig tree » Jeremiah's parable of
Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (bad,) of wicked men
Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (good,) of saints
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Righteous » Compared with » Good figs
compared to Saints » Good figs
Symbols and similitudes » Basket of fruit

Jeremiah 24:4 (show verse)

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},

Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (bad,) of wicked men
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Righteous » Compared with » Good figs
compared to Saints » Good figs

Jeremiah 24:5 (show verse)

"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles of Judah whom I have sent away from this place [to the] land of [the] Chaldeans.

Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (bad,) of wicked men
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Righteous » Compared with » Good figs
compared to Saints » Good figs

Jeremiah 24:6 (show verse)

For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not annihilate [them], and I will plant them and not uproot [them].

Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (bad,) of wicked men
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Righteous » Compared with » Good figs
compared to Saints » Good figs

Jeremiah 24:7 (show verse)

And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I [am] Yahweh, and {they will be my people}, and {I will be their God}, for they will return to me with the whole of their heart.

Endowments » Spiritual promised » Spiritual knowledge
Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (bad,) of wicked men
Gifts » Presents to men spiritual » Spiritual knowledge
God » Spiritual promised » Spiritual knowledge
God's Promises » Of spiritual gifts » Spiritual knowledge
Heart » The whole » Renewed
New Birth » Produces » Knowledge of God
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Righteous » Compared with » Good figs
compared to Saints » Good figs
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Spiritual knowledge

Jeremiah 24:8 (show verse)

But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of [their] bad quality--for thus says Yahweh--so I will treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.

Fig tree » Fruit of, illustrative » (bad,) of wicked men
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Wicked people » Compared with » Bad figs
Wicked, the, are compared to » Evil figs
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » The allegiance denounced » By jeremiah

Jeremiah 24:9 (show verse)

And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them.

Dispersion » Of the jews, foretold
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Became a by-word to neighbouring nations
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » The allegiance denounced » By jeremiah

Jeremiah 24:10 (show verse)

And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.'"

Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » The allegiance denounced » By jeremiah