The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Figs” it comes from the Hebrew Word “teenah” which means “figs.”
Jeremiah receives a vision of good and bad figs representing two different groups of exiles. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Jeremiah 24.
Jeremiah describes a vision the Lord showed him, two baskets of “figs,” “teenah” in Hebrew, set before the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar 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, one basket having very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket having very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Jeremiah records the Lord asking what he sees, and he answers, figs, the good figs very good, and the evil very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil, the Lord explaining that like these good figs, so He will acknowledge those who are carried away captive of Judah, whom He has sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good, setting His eyes upon them for good, and bringing them again to this land, building them, and not pulling them down, planting them, and not plucking them up. Jeremiah records the Lord’s promise to give them a heart to know Him, that He is the Lord, and they shall be His people, and He will be their God, for they shall return to Him with their whole heart, but as for the evil figs, so evil they cannot be eaten, so He will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt, delivering 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 where He shall drive them, closing with the observation that He will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from off the land He gave to them and their fathers, this striking vision reversing common assumptions about which group, exiled or remaining, was actually receiving God’s genuine favor.
This vision’s striking reversal, the exiles being the good figs and those remaining in Jerusalem being the bad ones, challenges assumptions that physical proximity to the temple automatically equals genuine spiritual favor or blessing. Its promise that God would give the exiles a heart to know Him reveals that even difficult, unwanted circumstances like exile could ultimately serve genuine, transformative spiritual purposes rather than merely representing punishment alone.
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