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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 taken Jeconiah [who was also called Coniah and Jehoiachin] the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah [along] with the craftsmen and smiths into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, the Lord showed me [in a vision] 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 the figs that are the first to ripen; but the other basket had very bad figs, so rotten that they could not be eaten.

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, so rotten that they cannot be eaten.”

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)

Again 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, the God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent from 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 overwhelm 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)

I will give them a heart to know Me, [understanding fully] that 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)

‘And as for the bad figs, which are so rotten that they cannot be eaten,’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes, 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)

I will make them a focus of ridicule and disappointment [tossed back and forth] among all the kingdoms of the earth, a [notorious] disgrace, a byword, 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, famine and virulent disease among them until they are consumed from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.’”

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