Jeremiah 24:2
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| Overview - Jeremiah 24 | |
| 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. |
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Jeremiah 24:2 (King James Version)
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 ; Hosea 9:10 ; Micah 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
- See Note on Isaiah 28:4 .
- naughty
- The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state.
- 8-10 ; Isaiah 5:4 Isaiah 5:7 ; Ezekiel 15:2-5 ; Malachi 1:12-14 ; Matthew 5:13
- they were so bad
- Hebrew for badness.