The Good and Bad Figs
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah 1son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, 2 the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD. Jer 29:22Ch 36:102Ki 24:12-161Sa 13:19-20Amo 3:7Amo 7:1Amo 7:4Amo 7:7 One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten. Isa 5:4Isa 5:7Mic 7:1Ezk 15:2-5Hos 9:10Jer 24:5-10Jer 29:17Mal 1:12-14
“Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” Amo 8:2Jer 1:11-14Mat 25:32-33Zec 4:2Zec 5:5-111Sa 9:9Amo 7:8Zec 5:2
“Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 3 Zec 13:9Nam 1:71Co 8:32Ti 2:19Deu 8:16Gal 4:9Heb 12:5-10Jhn 10:27 I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. Jer 42:10Jer 29:10Jer 33:7Jer 12:15Jer 32:41Jer 1:10Jer 32:371Pe 3:12 I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart. Heb 8:10Jer 30:22Ezk 37:23Ezk 36:24-28Ezk 11:19-20Zec 8:8Deu 30:2-6Rom 6:17
But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt. Jer 43:1Jer 24:2Jer 29:16-18Jer 37:17Jer 39:2-9Ezk 12:12-16Ezk 17:11-21Jer 21:10 I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them. Deu 28:37Jer 29:181Ki 9:7Jer 15:4Jer 25:18Jer 34:172Ch 7:20Deu 28:25 And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’” Isa 51:19Ezk 5:12-17Jer 19:7Ezk 14:12-21Ezk 33:27Ezk 6:12-14Ezk 7:15Jer 14:15-16