Jeremiah 24:2

One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe: and the other basket [had] very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

One {H259} basket {H1731} had very {H3966} good {H2896} figs {H8384}, even like the figs {H8384} that are first ripe {H1073}: and the other {H259} basket {H1731} had very {H3966} naughty {H7451} figs {H8384}, which could not be eaten {H398}, they were so bad {H7455}.

One of the baskets had in it very good figs, like those that ripen first; while the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were inedible.

One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

One 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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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 5:4 (4 votes)

    What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

  • Isaiah 5:7 (4 votes)

    For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

  • Micah 7:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

  • Hosea 9:10 (2 votes)

    I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.

  • Ezekiel 15:2 (2 votes)

    Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or than] a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

  • Ezekiel 15:5 (2 votes)

    Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?

  • Jeremiah 24:5 (2 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for [their] good.