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Jeremiah 24:4

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Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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This verse in Jeremiah 24

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then the word of the LORD

on Jeremiah 24:4-7

The good figs are the exiles in Babylon: “so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place.” The promise takes up the verbs of Jeremiah's call at 1:10, “I will build them up and not tear them down.”

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter XXIV. - Verse 1ff.) The Lord showed me, and behold, two baskets (or baskets) full of figs, placed before the temple of the Lord. After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes, the craftsmen, and the captives from Jerusalem to Babylon. One basket had very good figs, like the figs that ripen early, and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten because they were bad. And the Lord said to me: What do you see, Jeremiah?

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. As follows; where an explanation is given of the above vision, to which this is a transition.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The complete fulfillment of this prophecy belongs to the Christian Church. There is a close analogy between Jeremiah at the first destruction of Jerusalem and our Lord at the second. There the good figs were those converts picked out by the preaching of Christ and the Apostles; the bad figs were the mass of the people left for Titus and the Romans to destroy. Jer 24:5 Acknowledge ... for their good - Specially their spiritual good. Put a comma after Chaldaeans.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

so will I recognize the exile of, etc. This is an inverted verse: So will I recognize for good the exile of Judah which I have already exiled, viz., Jeconiah and his exile.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 24:5:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֥יand it came

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • דְבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלַ֥יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 24 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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