Jeremiah 24 â€" The Holy Bible

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Jeremiah

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In this chapter Jeremiah warns the people of Judah that their leaders will soon be taken to Babylon and that the nation will face great judgment. He also tells the people that the exile will bring sorrow but also a chance to remember God's faithfulness. The chapter emphasizes the seriousness of their choices and the hope of restoration.

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(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.

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Amos 3:7 Amos 7:1 Amos 7:4 Amos 7:7 Amos 8:1 Zechariah 1:20 Zechariah 3:1 Deuteronomy 26:2 Deuteronomy 26:3 Deuteronomy 26:4 Jeremiah 22:24 Jeremiah 22:25

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Jeremiah 27:20 Ezra 5:14 Jeremiah 39:3 II Kings 24:16 Jeremiah 40:1 Jeremiah 40:7

(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.

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Jeremiah 24:5 Jeremiah 24:6 Jeremiah 24:7 Hosea 9:10 Micah 7:1 Jeremiah 24:8 Jeremiah 24:9 Jeremiah 24:10 Isaiah 5:4 Isaiah 5:7 Ezekiel 15:2 Ezekiel 15:3

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Jeremiah 24:3 I Samuel 30:12 Jeremiah 24:8 Jeremiah 29:17 Genesis 40:17 Exodus 29:3

(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.

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Jeremiah 1:11 Jeremiah 1:12 Jeremiah 1:13 Jeremiah 1:14 I Samuel 9:9 Amos 7:8 Amos 8:2 Zechariah 4:2 Zechariah 5:2 Zechariah 5:5 Zechariah 5:6 Zechariah 5:7

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Jeremiah 24:2 I Samuel 30:12 Jeremiah 24:8 Jeremiah 29:17 Joel 1:4 Jeremiah 38:6

(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.

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Nahum 1:7 Zechariah 13:9 Matthew 25:12 John 10:27 I Corinthians 8:3 Galatians 4:9 II Timothy 2:19 Deuteronomy 8:16 Psalms 94:12 Psalms 94:13 Psalms 94:14 Psalms 119:67

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Jeremiah 13:19 Jeremiah 40:1 Jeremiah 41:10 Jeremiah 24:1 Jeremiah 29:1 Esther 2:6

(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.

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Jeremiah 21:10 Deuteronomy 11:12 II Chronicles 16:9 Nehemiah 5:19 Job 33:27 Job 33:28 Psalms 34:15 I Peter 3:12 Jeremiah 12:15 Jeremiah 23:3 Jeremiah 29:10 Jeremiah 32:37

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Jeremiah 42:10 Jeremiah 1:10 Jeremiah 31:28

(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.

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Jeremiah 31:33 Jeremiah 31:34 Jeremiah 32:39 Deuteronomy 30:6 Ezekiel 11:19 Ezekiel 11:20 Ezekiel 36:24 Ezekiel 36:25 Ezekiel 36:26 Ezekiel 36:27 Ezekiel 36:28 Jeremiah 30:22

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Song of Solomon 6:13 Ezekiel 7:13 Jeremiah 15:19 Jeremiah 44:14 Ezekiel 16:55 Malachi 3:7

(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:

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Jeremiah 24:2 Jeremiah 24:5 Jeremiah 29:16 Jeremiah 29:17 Jeremiah 29:18 Jeremiah 21:10 Jeremiah 32:28 Jeremiah 32:29 Jeremiah 34:17 Jeremiah 34:18 Jeremiah 34:19 Jeremiah 34:20

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Jeremiah 24:2 Jeremiah 24:3 Jeremiah 44:25 I Samuel 30:12 Jeremiah 29:17 Ezekiel 34:18

(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.

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Jeremiah 15:4 Jeremiah 34:17 Deuteronomy 28:25 Deuteronomy 28:37 Deuteronomy 28:65 Deuteronomy 28:66 Deuteronomy 28:67 Ezekiel 5:1 Ezekiel 5:2 Ezekiel 5:12 Ezekiel 5:13 Jeremiah 19:8

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Jeremiah 29:18 II Kings 15:4 II Kings 15:35 Jeremiah 44:8

(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.

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Jeremiah 5:12 Jeremiah 9:16 Jeremiah 14:15 Jeremiah 14:16 Jeremiah 15:2 Jeremiah 16:4 Jeremiah 19:7 Jeremiah 34:17 Isaiah 51:19 Ezekiel 5:12 Ezekiel 5:13 Ezekiel 5:14

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