Jeremiah 24:8

“And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, etc.] Here follows an explication of the evil figs, and an application of them to the wicked Jews: surely thus saith the Lord, so will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah; who was then the reigning king of Judah, Jeconiah’s father’s brother; whom the king of Babylon had made king in his stead, and changed his name from Mattaniah to Zedekiah, (<122417>2 Kings 24:17); him the Lord threatens to give up to ruin and destruction, or to deliver into the hands of the enemy: and his princes, and the residue of them, that remain in this land; the rest of the inhabitants of Jerusalem that continued in the land of Judea, and were not carried…”

“in . . . Egypt--Many Jews had fled for refuge to Egypt, which was leagued with Judea against Babylon.”

“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…”

“24:8-10 The bad figs were those left in Jerusalem, and the Lord would scatter them because of their rottenness. Those included in this group ranged from the remainder of the royal family to the common people. In 586 BC, Zedekiah’s reign ended exactly as predicted here.”

“as: Jer 24:2, Jer 24:5, Jer 29:16-18 So will: Jer 21:10, Jer 32:28, Jer 32:29, Jer 34:17-22, Jer 37:10, Jer 37:17, Jer 38:18-23, Jer 39:2-9, Jer 52:2-11; Eze 12:12-16, Eze 17:11-21 and them: Jer. 43:1-44:30 Jeremiah 24:9”

“And as one deals with the bad uneatable figs, i.e., throws them away, so will the Lord deliver up to ignominious ruin Zedekiah with his princes and the remainder of the people, both those still staying in the land and those living in Egypt. This, the fate awaiting them, is more fully described in Jer 24:9 and Jer 24:10. In Jer 24:8 the "yea, thus saith," is inserted into the sentence by way of repetition of the "thus saith," Jer 24:5. כּן is resumed and expanded by וּנתתּים in Jer 24:9. The "princes" are Zedekiah's courtiers. Those in Egypt are they who during the war had fled thither to hide themselves from judgment. From the beginning of Jer 24:9 to הארץ is verbally the same as Jer 15:4,…”