Jeremiah 24:5
Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Like these good figs, so, will I regard them of Judah who are carried into captivity, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:44And yet even so when they are in the land of their foes I have not refused them Neither have I abhorred them To make an end of them, To break my covenant with them,—For, I—Yahweh, am their God.
Psalms 94:12How happy the man whom thou correctest, O Yah! And whom, out of thy law, thou instructest!
Psalms 119:71It is, well for me, that I was afflicted, That I might learn thy statutes.
Ezekiel 11:20To the end that in my statutes, they may walk, And mine appointments, they may keep, and do them,— So shall they become my people, And I will become their God.
Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third into the fire, and will smelt them as one smelteth silver, and will try them, as one trieth gold,—It, will call upon my name, and, I, will answer it, and will say, My people, it is! and, it, will say, Yahweh, is my God!
John 10:27My sheep, unto my voice, hearken,—and, I, know, them, and they follow me,—
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 24:2-10
Vision of the Good and Bad Figs; Promises and Threatenings. ( b. c. 599.) 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… Read the whole commentary →