Jeremiah 24
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 24, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs {were} set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 24:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {they...: Heb. for badness}
Jeremiah 24:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Jeremiah 24:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah 24:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {them...: Heb. the captivity}
Jeremiah 24:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I will set mine eyes upon 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.
Jeremiah 24:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will give them an 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 unto me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah 24:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
Jeremiah 24:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for {their} hurt, {to be} a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. {to be removed: Heb. for removing, or, vexation}
Jeremiah 24:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah 24:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.