Jeremiah 24:3 - Prayer Tents

Baskets of Figs and the Returnees

24AFTER NEBUCHADREZZAR king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah [also called Coniah and Jehoiachin] son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me [in a vision] two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord.H3068H7200H8147H1736H8384H3259H6440H1964H3068H310H5019H4428H894H1540H3204H1121H3079H4428H3063H8269H3063H2796H4525H3389H935H894 2One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.H259H1731H3966H2896H8384H8384H1073H259H1731H3966H7451H8384H398H7455 3Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs--the good figs very good, and the bad very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.H559H3068H7200H3414H559H8384H2896H8384H3966H2896H7451H3966H7451H398H7455 4Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,H1697H3068H559 5Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.H559H3068H430H3478H2896H8384H5234H1546H3063H7971H4725H776H3778H2896 6For I will set My eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.H7760H5869H2896H7725H776H1129H2040H5193H5428 7And I will give them a heart to know (recognize, understand, and be acquainted with) Me, that I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.H5414H3820H3045H3068H5971H430H7725H3820 8And as for the bad figs, which are so bad that they cannot be eaten, surely thus says the Lord, So will I give up Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes and the residue of Jerusalem who remains in this land and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.H7451H8384H398H7455H559H3068H5414H6667H4428H3063H8269H7611H3389H7604H776H3427H776H4714 9I will even give them up to be a dismay {and} a horror {and} to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach, a byword {or} proverb, a taunt, and a curse in all places where I will drive them.H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H7451H2781H4912H8148H7045H4725H5080 10And I will send the sword, famine, and pestilence among them until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.H7971H2719H7458H1698H8552H127H5414H1