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Jeremiah Chapter 24 (NKJV Bible)

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¹ The [1†]LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar [2†]king of Babylon had carried away captive [3†]Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

² One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so [4†]bad.

³ Then the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”

⁴ Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

⁵ “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.

⁶ For I will set My eyes on them for good, and [5†]I will bring them back to this land; [6†]I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

⁷ Then I will give them [7†]a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be [8†]My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me [9†]with their whole heart.

⁸ ‘And as the bad [10†]figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the LORD—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the [11†]residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and [12†]those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

⁹ I will deliver them to [13†]trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, [14†]to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

¹⁰ And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”

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1	The [1†]LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar [2†]king of Babylon had carried away captive [3†]Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2	One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so [4†]bad.
3	Then the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”
4	Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5	“Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.
6	For I will set My eyes on them for good, and [5†]I will bring them back to this land; [6†]I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
7	Then I will give them [7†]a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be [8†]My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me [9†]with their whole heart.
8	‘And as the bad [10†]figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the LORD—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the [11†]residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and [12†]those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
9	I will deliver them to [13†]trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, [14†]to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
10	And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”