Jeremiah 24:2

Jeremiah 24:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
• English Standard Version (ESV)One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
• New King James Version (NKJV)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 bad.

Context of Jeremiah 24:2

1Adonai showed me, all of a sudden, there were two baskets of figs set before the Temple of Adonai. It was after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken away into exile Jeconiah son of King Jehoiakim of Judah and the princes of Judah, along with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe, but the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3Then Adonai said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” So I said, “Figs—the good figs are very good, but the bad are very bad, and cannot be eaten, they are so bad.” 4Then the word of Adonai came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 24:2 word by word

הַדּ֣וּד אֶחָ֗ד תְּאֵנִים֙ טֹב֣וֹת מְאֹ֔ד כִּתְאֵנֵ֖י הַבַּכֻּר֑וֹת וְהַדּ֣וּד אֶחָ֗ד תְּאֵנִים֙ רָע֣וֹת מְאֹ֔ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תֵֽאָכַ֖לְנָה מֵרֹֽעַ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• basketדּוּדdûd · potH1731
• veryמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966
• goodטוֹבţôb · pleasantH2896
• figsתְּאֵנָהte'ên te'ênâh · figH8384
• first ripeבִּכּוּרָהbakkûrâh · first ripe figH1073
• naughtyרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: harmfulH7451
• which could not be eatenאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• they were so badרֹעַrôa‛ · evilH7455

Cross-references for Jeremiah 24:2

• Jeremiah 24:5thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: “Like these good figs, so will I regard the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place to the land of the Chaldeans, as good.
• Hosea 9:10“Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel. Like early fruit on a fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. So they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
• Micah 7:1Woe is me! For I am like gatherings of produce in summer, like gleanings of a vineyard. There is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that I crave.
• Isaiah 28:4The glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the fertile valley, like a first-ripe fig before summer— whoever sees it, swallows it up while it is still in his palm.
• Jeremiah 24:8“Now as for the bad figs, which cannot be eaten they are so bad”—surely thus says Adonai—“so I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, as well as those dwelling in the land of Egypt.
• Isaiah 5:4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done? Why then, when I expected it to yield good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?
• Ezekiel 15:2“Son of man, how can the wood of a vine be better than the branch of any tree that is among the trees of the forest?
• Malachi 1:12But you are profaning it when you say, “The table of Adonai is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food—despicable!“
• Matthew 5:13“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt should lose its flavor, how shall it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 24:2

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Fig-trees bear three crops of figs, of which the first is regarded as a great delicacy.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-10This section discusses the meaning of the exile in 597 BC. Some people said it was God's way of removing the bad figs from the basket(Jerusalem) so the good figs could survive. Jeremiah argued the opposite. The good figs were taken out of the basket (into exile) so the bad figs would not destroy them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. figs ... first ripe--the "boccora," or early fig (see on Is 28:4). Baskets of figs used to be offered as first-fruits in the temple. The good figs represent Jeconiah and the exiles in Babylon; the bad, Zedekiah and the obstinate Jews in Judea. They are called good and bad respectively, not in an absolute, but a comparative sense, and in reference to the punishment of the latter. This prophecy was designed to encourage the despairing exiles, and to…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 24:2

• Fig Tree
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Righteous
• Symbols and Similitudes

In the dictionaries

• Naughty figs
• Basket
• Fig
• Kettle
• Naughtiness
• Proverb
• Captivity
• Fig, Fig-Tree
• Food
• Good

Commentaries on Jeremiah 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings