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Jeremiah 24:2

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One basket: Jeremiah 24:5-7; Hosea 9:10; Micah 7:1

first ripe: The boccore: or figs of the early sort; perhaps those which are ripe about six weeks before the full season, which are reckoned a great dainty. See note on Isaiah 28:4.

naughty: The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state. Jeremiah 24:8-10; Isaiah 5:4, Isaiah 5:7; Ezekiel 15:2-5; Malachi 1:12-14; Matthew 5:13

they were so bad: Heb. for badness

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