Jeremiah 24 (NET)

Jeremiah 24:1¹The Lord showed me two baskets of figs sitting before his temple. This happened after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon deported Jehoiakim’s son, King Jeconiah of Judah. He deported him and the leaders of Judah from Jerusalem, along with the craftsmen and metal workers, and took them to Babylon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 29:22 Chr 36:102 Kgs 24:12-161 Sam 13:19-20Amos 3:7Amos 7:1Amos 7:4Amos 7:7Amos 8:1-2Deut 26:2-4

Jeremiah 24:2²One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:4Isa 5:7Mic 7:1Ezek 15:2-5Hos 9:10Jer 24:5-10Jer 29:17Mal 1:12-14Matt 5:13

Jeremiah 24:3³The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 8:2Jer 1:11-14Matt 25:32-33Zech 4:2Zech 5:5-111 Sam 9:9Amos 7:8

Jeremiah 24:4⁴The Lord’ s message came to me,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Jeremiah 24:5⁵“I, the Lord, the God of Israel, say: ‘The exiles of Judah whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon are like those good figs. I consider them to be good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 13:9Nah 1:71 Cor 8:32 Tim 2:19Deut 8:16Gal 4:9Heb 12:5-10John 10:27Matt 25:12Ps 119:67

Jeremiah 24:6⁶I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 42:10Jer 29:10Jer 33:7Jer 12:15Jer 32:41Jer 1:10Jer 32:371 Pet 3:12Ezek 36:24Ps 34:15

Jeremiah 24:7⁷I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 8:10Jer 30:22Ezek 37:23Ezek 36:24-28Zech 8:8Deut 30:2-6Ezek 11:19-20Rom 6:171 Sam 7:3Deut 4:29-31

Jeremiah 24:8⁸“I, the Lord, also solemnly assert: ‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 43:1-44:1Jer 24:2Jer 29:16-18Jer 37:17Jer 39:2-9Ezek 12:12-16Ezek 17:11-21Jer 21:10Jer 24:5Jer 32:28-29

Jeremiah 24:9⁹I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:37Jer 29:181 Kgs 9:7Jer 15:4Jer 25:18Jer 34:172 Chr 7:20Deut 28:25Isa 65:15Jer 26:6

Jeremiah 24:10¹⁰I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:19Ezek 5:12-17Jer 19:7Ezek 14:12-21Ezek 33:27Ezek 6:12-14Ezek 7:15Jer 14:15-16Jer 15:2Jer 16:4