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Themes in Jeremiah 24

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Themes in Jeremiah 24

Jeremiah 24:1 (show verse)

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord!

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)

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.

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)

Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”

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 the Lord 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 the Lord God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into 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 again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

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)

I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole 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 which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell 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)

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter 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)

I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”

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