1 Under the type of good and bad figs,
4 he foreshews the restoration of them that were in captivity;
8 and the desolation of Zedekiah and the rest.

A.M. 3406. B.C. 598. Lord. Am 3:7 7:1,4,7 8:1 Zec 1:20 3:1

two. De 26:2-4

after. 22:24-28 29:2 2Ki 24:12-16 2Ch 36:10 Eze 19:9

Smiths. 1Sa 13:19,20

2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

One basket. 5-7 Ho 9:10 Mic 7:1

first ripe. The boccore, or figs of the early sort; perhaps those which are ripe about six weeks before the full season, which are reckoned a great dainty.

Isa 28:4

naughty. The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state.

8-10 Isa 5:4,7 Eze 15:2-5 Mal 1:12-14 Mt 5:13

they were so bad. Heb. for badness.

3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

What. 1:11-14 1Sa 9:9 Am 7:8 8:2 Zec 4:2 5:2,5-11 Mt 25:32,33

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

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5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

I acknowledge. Na 1:7 Zec 13:9 Mt 25:12 Joh 10:27 1Co 8:3 Ga 4:9 2Ti 2:19

them that are carried away captive. Heb. the captivity. For. De 8:16 Ps 94:12-14 119:67,71 Ro 8:28 Heb 12:5-10 Re 3:19

6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

For I will. 21:10 De 11:12 2Ch 16:9 Ne 5:19 Job 33:27,28 Ps 34:15 1Pe 3:12

and I will bring. 12:15 23:3 29:10 32:37 Eze 11:15-17 36:24

I will build. 1:10 18:7-9 32:41 33:7 42:10

7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

I will give. 31:33,34 32:39 De 30:6 Eze 11:19,20 36:24-28

and they. 30:22 31:33 32:38 De 26:17-19 Eze 37:23,27 Zec 8:8 13:9 Heb 8:10 11:16

for they. 3:10 29:12-14 De 4:29-31 30:2-5 1Sa 7:3 1Ki 8:46-50 2Ch 6:38 Isa 55:6,7 Ho 14:1-3 Ro 6:17

8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

as. See on ver. 2,5 29:16-18

so will. 21:10 32:28,29 34:17-22 37:10,17 38:18-23 39:2-9 52:2-11 Eze 12:12-16 17:11-21

and them. 43:1 44:1

9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

to be removed. Heb. for removing or vexation. 15:4 34:17 De 28:25,37,65-67 Eze 5:1,2,12,13

to be a. 19:8 25:18 26:6 42:18 44:12,22 1Ki 9:7 2Ch 7:20 Ps 44:13,14 La 2:15-17 Eze 25:3 26:2 36:2,3

a curse. 29:18,22 Ps 109:18,19 Isa 65:15

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

5:12 9:16 14:15,16 15:2 16:4 19:7 34:17 Isa 51:19 Eze 5:12-17 6:12-14 7:15 14:12-21 33:27