1The Lord showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the Lord's temple, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

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Jeremiah 29:2, Jeremiah 29:2, 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Kings 24:12

2One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

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Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:7, Micah 7:1

3Then the Lord said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad."

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Amos 8:2, Amos 8:2, Jeremiah 1:11, Jeremiah 1:14, Matthew 25:32

4The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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5"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

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Zechariah 13:9, Zechariah 13:9, Nahum 1:7, Nahum 1:7, 1 Corinthians 8:3

6For I will set my eyes on 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 42:10, Jeremiah 42:10, Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 33:7

7I will give them a 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 to me with their whole heart.'

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Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 8:10, Jeremiah 30:22, Jeremiah 30:22, Ezekiel 37:23

8As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says the Lord, 'So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,

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Jeremiah 43:1, Jeremiah 44:1, Jeremiah 43:1, Jeremiah 44:1, Jeremiah 24:2

9I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

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Deuteronomy 28:37, Jeremiah 29:18, Jeremiah 15:4, Deuteronomy 28:37, Jeremiah 29:18

10I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.'"

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Isaiah 51:19, Isaiah 51:19, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 5:17, Ezekiel 5:12