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Two Baskets of Figs

24 After Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken Jehoiakim’s son Jeconiah,[a] king of Judah, along with the officials[b] of Judah, the craftsmen, and the smiths from Jerusalem into exile, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed right in front of the Temple of the Lord. One basket contained very good figs like the first figs that ripen on the tree. The other basket contained very bad figs that were too bad to be eaten.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 24:1 I.e. Jehoiachin
  2. Jeremiah 24:1 Or princes