“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.”
God's vision of two baskets of figs set before the temple after Nebuchadnezzar has taken the king and officials captive shows divine perspective on the exile experience. The timing—after the deportation—suggests that the vision addresses the remaining population and their future. The two baskets represent distinction: one good (ripe) and one bad (inedible). The vision conveys that exile itself is not punishment for all but a sorting mechanism separating faithful from unfaithful. The vision gives meaning to the traumatic event of deportation.
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