Jeremiah 24:4

Geneva Bible

Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

King James Version
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

English Standard Version
Then the word of the Lord came to me:

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke his word to me:

Amplified Bible
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
Then the Lord told me to say:

Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the message from the Lord came to me.

George Lamsa Translation
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
So the Lord said to me,

Lexham English Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
Again the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto me, after this maner:

American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
Againe, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then came the worde of the Lorde vnto me, after this maner:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New English Translation
The Lord said to me,

New King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
Then the Lord gave me this message:

New Life Bible
Then the Word of the Lord came to me, saying,

New Revised Standard
Then the word of the Lord came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Then the word of the LORD came to me:

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

THE MESSAGE
Then God told me, "This is the Message from the God of Israel: The exiles from here that I've sent off to the land of the Babylonians are like the good figs, and I'll make sure they get good treatment. I'll keep my eye on them so that their lives are good, and I'll bring them back to this land. I'll build them up, not tear them down; I'll plant them, not uproot them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord shewed me, and beholde, two baskets of figges were set before the Temple of the Lorde, after that Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away captiue Ieconiah ye sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, and the princes of Iudah with the workemen, and cunning men of Ierusalem, and had brought them to Babel. ² One basket had verie good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had verie naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, they were so euill. ³ Then saide the Lorde vnto mee, What seest thou, Ieremiah? And I said, Figges: ye good figges verie good, & the naughtie verie naughtie, which cannot be eaten, they are so euill. ⁴ Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying, ⁵ Thus sayeth the Lorde, the God of Israel, Like these good figges, so will I knowe them that are caryed away captiue of Iudah to bee good, whome I haue sent out of this place, into the land of the Caldeans. ⁶ For I wil set mine eyes vpon them for good, and I will bring them againe to this lande, and I will build them, and not destroy them, & I will plant them, and not roote them out, ⁷ And I will giue them an heart to knowe me, that I am the Lord, & they shalbe my people, and I wil be their God: for they shal returne vnto mee with their whole heart. ⁸ And as the naughtie figges which can not bee eaten, they are so euill (surely thus saith the Lorde) so wil I giue Zedekiah the King of Iudah, and his princes, and the residue of Ierusalem, that remaine in this lande, and them that dwell in the lande of Egypt: ⁹ I will euen giue them for a terrible plague to all the kingdomes of the earth, and for a reproche, and for a prouerbe, for a common talke, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them. ¹⁰ And I will sende the sworde, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they bee consumed out of the land, that I gaue vnto them and to their fathers.

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Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared vnto Abram, and said, Vnto thy seede will I giue this land. And there builded he an altar vnto the Lord, which appeared vnto him.

Genesis 24:20
And she powred out her pitcher into the trough speedily; and ranne againe vnto the well to drawe water, and she drewe for all his camels.

Genesis 24:23
And he said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee, Is there roume in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in?

Genesis 28:2
Arise, get thee to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and thence take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. As follows; where an explanation is given of the above vision, to which this is a transition.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The complete fulfillment of this prophecy belongs to the Christian Church. There is a close analogy between Jeremiah at the first destruction of Jerusalem and our Lord at the second. There the good figs were those converts picked out by the preaching of Christ and the Apostles; the bad figs were the mass of the people left for Titus and the Romans to destroy.

Jeremiah 24:5

Acknowledge ... for their good - Specially their spiritual good. Put a comma after Chaldaeans.

Jeremiah 24:8

That dwell in the land of Egypt - Neither those carried captive with Jehoahaz into Egypt, nor those who fled there, are to share in these blessings. The new life of the Jewish nation is to be the work only of the exiles in Babylon.