Jeremiah 24:4

New American Standard Bible

Then the word of the LORD came to 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 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,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto 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 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD. ² One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness. ³ Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs: the good figs are very good, and the bad ones, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness." ⁴ Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,⁵ "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. ⁶ 'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not uproot them. ⁷ 'I will also give them a heart to know Me, for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me wholeheartedly. ⁸ 'But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness,' indeed, this is what the LORD says, 'so will I give up Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and the ones who live in the land of Egypt. ⁹ 'I will make them an object of terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all the places where I will scatter them. ¹⁰ 'And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague upon them until they are eliminated from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.'"

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Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

Genesis 24:20
So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

Genesis 24:23
and he said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to stay overnight at your father's house?"

Genesis 28:2
"Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's 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.