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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2015 November 19
Figs (1651-1662)
Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670)
Baroque Style
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence, Italy
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In Jeremiah 24, after Nebuchadrezzar captured king Jehoiakim and deported him and other captives to Babylon, the LORD showed Jeremiah two baskets of figs - one good and one bad (1-3). The good figs represented the captives that the LORD would bless and bring back to Jerusalem because he had given them hearts which would turn wholly to him (4-7). The bad figs represented those whom the LORD rejected; and they would be reproached and die horrible deaths (8-10).
Today's painting depicts the key image of today's chapter, figs.
[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Jeremiah 21. Jeremiah 22. Jeremiah 23. Jeremiah 24. ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
Jeremiah 24
1. Prophecies for Judah + Jerusalem's Fall & the Aftermath
(1:1 - 45:5) - 627 - 560 B.C., Israel
A. Jeremiah's Call (1)
B. Prophecies and Events in Judah and Jerusalem (2-45)
1). Until the Fall of Jerusalem (2-39)
k). The LORD's Eleventh Word: The Vision of the Figs (24:1-10)
(1). The "Good Figs" (i.e., the People) will Return from
Captivity (24:1-7)
(2). The "Bad Figs" (i.e., King Zedekiah and His Officials)
Will Die (24:8-10)
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(1). The "Good Figs" (i.e., The People) Will Return from Captivity (24:1-7)
1 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.
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.
3 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.
4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
(2). The "Bad Figs" (i.e., King Zedekiah and His Officials) Will Die (24:8-10)
8 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:
9 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.
10 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.
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