Jeremiah 24:5
Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Like these good figs so do I acknowledge The removed of Judah — that I sent from this place, [To] the land of the Chaldeans — for good.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:44and also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I [am] Jehovah their God; —
Psalms 94:12O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
Psalms 119:71Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
Ezekiel 11:20So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
Zechariah 13:9And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it [is],' And it saith, 'Jehovah [is] my God!'
John 10:27according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, 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 →