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The Two Figs: Exile and Remnant

Jeremiah 24:1-10

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Chapter 24
1 The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah and the craftsmen and the smiths from Jerusalem, and he brought them to Babylon. 2 The good basket of figs is very good, like the firstfruits, and the bad basket of figs is very bad, which are not eaten because of their badness. 3 And the LORD said to me, "What have you seen, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs—the good figs very good, and the bad ones very bad, which no one will eat because of their badness." 4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying. 5 This is what the LORD God of Israel says: Like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans for good. 6 And I will set my eye upon them for good and return them to this land and build them and not destroy and plant them and not uproot. 7 And 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 turn to me with all their heart. 8 And the bad figs that cannot be eaten because they are so bad—for thus the LORD has said: So I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials and the remnant of Jerusalem, the remaining ones in this land, and the ones dwelling in the land of Egypt. 9 And I will give them for a horror, for evil, to all kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a byword, for hatred and for a curse, in all the places where I will drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are finished from the ground that I gave to them and to their fathers.