Jeremías 24:2

La Biblia Reina-Valera

La una cesta tenía higos muy buenos, como brevas; y la otra cesta tenía higos muy malos, que no se podían comer de malos.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Una cesta tenía higos muy buenos, como los primeros higos maduros; y la otra tenía higos muy malos, que de podridos no se podían comer.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Una cesta tenía higos muy buenos, como brevas; y la otra cesta tenía higos muy malos, que no se podían comer de malos.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Una cesta tenía higos muy buenos, como brevas; y la otra cesta tenía higos muy malos, que no se podían comer de malos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

One basket: Jeremiah 24:5-7, Hosea 9:10, Micah 7:1

first ripe: The boccore or figs of the early sort; perhaps those which are ripe about six weeks before the full season, which are reckoned a great dainty. See note on Isaiah 28:4.

naughty: The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state. Jeremiah 24:8-10, Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:7, Ezekiel 15:2-5, Malachi 1:12-14, Matthew 5:13

they were so bad: Heb. for badness

Reciprocal: Numbers 18:13 - whatsoever Psalms 81:6 - from the pots Proverbs 6:12 - naughty Jeremiah 29:16 - General Matthew 25:2 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe,.... As there are some figs that are ripe sooner than others, and which are always the most desirable and acceptable; and such were they that were presented to the Lord, Micah 7:1; these signified those that were carried captive into Babylon with Jeconiah, among whom were some very good men, as Ezekiel, and others; and all might be said to be so, in comparison of those that were at Jerusalem, who were very wicked, and grew worse and worse:

and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad; as nothing is more sweet and luscious, and agreeable to the taste than a sound ripe fig, and especially a first ripe one; so nothing is more nauseous than a naughty rotten one: these signified the wicked Jews at Jerusalem indulging themselves in all manner of sin; so those who seemed to be the worst, through their being carried captive, were the best; and those who, seemed to be the best, by their prosperity, were the worst. This is to be understood in a comparative sense, as Calvin observes; though this does not so much design the quality of persons, as the issue of things, with respect unto them. The captivity of the one would issue in their good, and so are compared to good figs; when the sins of the other would bring upon them utter ruin and destruction without recovery, and therefore compared to bad figs that cannot be eaten.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fig-trees bear three crops of figs, of which the first is regarded as a great delicacy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 24:2. Very good figs — Or, figs of the early sort. The fig-trees in Palestine, says Dr. Shaw, produce fruit thrice each year. The first sort, called boccore, those here mentioned, come to perfection about the middle or end of June. The second sort, called kermez, or summer fig, is seldom ripe before August. And the third, which is called the winter fig, which is larger, and of a darker complexion than the preceding, hangs all the winter on the tree, ripening even when the leaves are shed, and is fit for gathering in the beginning of spring.

Could not be eaten — The winter fig, - then in its crude or unripe state; the spring not being yet come.