<< Jeremiah 24 >> King James Bible with Strong's Numbers

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1 The LORD shewed me and behold two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah with the carpenters and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon 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 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

4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying 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 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 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

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 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 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

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