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The Two Fig Baskets

24 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took Jehoiakin[a] (son of King Jehoiakim of Judah), the princes of Judah, the skilled workers, and the builders from Jerusalem into captivity and brought them to Babylon. After this, Yahweh showed me two baskets of figs set in front of Yahweh’s temple. One basket had very good figs, like figs that ripen first. The other basket had very bad figs. These figs were so bad that they couldn’t be eaten.

Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

I answered, “Figs. Figs that are very good. I also see figs that are very bad, so bad that they can’t be eaten.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 24:1 Masoretic Text “Jeconiah,” an alternate form of Jehoiakin.

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