--- title: "Jeremiah 24 - Study King James Bible with ellicotts commentary for english readers" description: "Read Jeremiah 24 with ellicotts commentary for english readers commentary. 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/jeremiah/24" --- [ Read](/kjv/jeremiah/24)[ Commentary](/study/jeremiah/24)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/jeremiah/24) Audio 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. [Jeremiah 23](/study/jeremiah/23) [Jeremiah 25](/study/jeremiah/25) ## Commentary To verse 1 **XXIV.** (1) **The Lord shewed me . . .**—The chapter belongs to the same period as the two preceding, *i.e.,*to the reign of Zedekiah, after the first capture of Jerusalem and the captivity of the chief inhabitants. The opening words indicate that the symbols on which the prophet looked were seen in vision, as in [Amos 7:1-4](/kjv/amos/7/1-4); [Amos 7:7](/kjv/amos/7/7); [Zechariah 1:8](/kjv/zechariah/1/8); [Zechariah 2:1](/kjv/zechariah/2/1), and the symbols of [Jeremiah 1:11](/kjv/jeremiah/1/11); [Jeremiah 1:13](/kjv/jeremiah/1/13); or, if seen with the eyes of the body, were looked on as with the prophet-poet’s power of finding parables in all things. The fact that the figs were set before the Temple of the Lord is significant. They were as a votive offering, first-fruits ([Exodus 23:19](/kjv/exodus/23/19); [Deuteronomy 26:2](/kjv/deuteronomy/26/2)) or tithes brought to the Lord of Israel. A like imagery had been used by Amos ([Amos 8:1-2](/kjv/amos/8/1-2)) with nearly the same formulæ. **The carpenters and smiths.**—See [2 Kings 24:14](/kjv/2-kings/24/14). The word for “carpenters” includes *craftsmen*of all kinds. The deportation of these classes was partly a matter of policy, making the city more helpless by removing those who might have forged weapons or strengthened its defences, partly, doubtless, of ostentation, that they might help in the construction of the buildings with which Nebuchadnezzar was increasing the splendour of his city. So Esar-haddon records how he made his captives *“*work in fetters, in making bricks” *Records of the Past, iii.* p. 120). So, from the former point of view, the Philistines in the time of Samuel either carried off the smiths of Israel or forbade the exercise of their calling ([1 Samuel 13:19](/kjv/1-samuel/13/19)). The word for “smith” is found in [Isaiah 24:22](/kjv/isaiah/24/22); [Isaiah 42:7](/kjv/isaiah/42/7) in the sense of “prison,” but, as applied to persons, only here and in the parallel passage of [2 Kings 24:14](/kjv/2-kings/24/14); [2 Kings 24:16](/kjv/2-kings/24/16). 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