a 2 Kin 24:10-16; 2 Chr 36:10; Jer 27:20; 29:1, 2
b Amos 8:1
c Mic 7:1; Nah 3:12
d Is 5:4, 7; Jer 29:17
e Jer 1:11, 13; Amos 8:2; Zech 4:2
f Nah 1:7; Zech 13:9
g Jer 12:15; 29:10; 32:37; Ezek 11:17
h Jer 31:4; 32:41; 33:7; 42:10
i Jer 32:41
j Deut 30:6; Jer 31:33; 32:40; Ezek 11:19; 36:26
k Is 51:16; Jer 7:23; 30:22; 31:33; 32:38; Ezek 14:11; Zech 8:8; Heb 8:10
l 1 Sam 7:3; Ps 119:2; Jer 29:13
m Jer 29:17
o Jer 39:5; Ezek 12:12, 13
p Jer 39:9
q Jer 44:1, 26-30
r Jer 15:4; 29:18; 34:17
s 1 Kin 9:7; Ps 44:13, 14
t Is 65:15
u Is 51:19; Jer 21:9; 27:8; Ezek 5:12-17

‏ Jeremiah 24

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

1After aNebuchadnezzar 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 bbaskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord! 2One basket had very good figs, like cfirst-ripe figs, and the other basket had dvery bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3Then the Lord said to me, e“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.”

4Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard fas good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. 6‘For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will gbring them again to this land; and I will hbuild them up and not overthrow them, and I will iplant them and not pluck them up. 7‘I will give them a jheart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be kMy people, and I will be their God, for they will lreturn to Me with their whole heart.

8‘But like the mbad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness— indeed, thus says the Lord—so I will ▼
▼ Lit give up
abandon oZedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the premnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of qEgypt. 9‘I will rmake them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a sreproach and a proverb, a taunt and a tcurse in all places where I will scatter them. 10‘I will send the usword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”
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