Under the type of good and bad figs, Jer_24:1-3, he foreshoweth the return of some from captivity, Jer_24:4-7, and the ruin of Zedekiah and the rest, Jer_24:8-10.
The sum of what God by his prophet revealeth in this chapter is, that he would deal more graciously with those carried into captivity with Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, of which read 2Ki_24:122Ch_36:10, than with those that should afterward be carried into captivity with Zedekiah. This the prophet hath revealed to him ill a vision of two baskets of figs, as followeth.
Some think these
two baskets of figs were such as the people had brought for their first-fruits, because they are mentioned as
set before the temple; but this might be no more than a vision, or all appearance of two baskets. The time of this vision was some time betwixt the carrying away of Jeconiah, of which we read 2Ki_24:12, &c.; 2Ch_36:10, and the carrying away of Zedekiah his uncle, which was eleven years after. In 2Ki_24:16, there is a particular mention of the king of Babylon’s carrrying away the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand.