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 aJehoiakim king of Judah, and
the bprinces of
Judaha, with the carpenters and
smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to cBabylon.
2 One basket had very good figs, even
like the afigs that are first ripe: and the other
basket had very bnaughty [corrupt] 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.
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1a the princes of Judah What
the footnote in LDS scpritures calls 'governors and officers' are none other
that those of the 'great Sanhedrin' of the church or religion of the Jews.
They are the 70 elders like unto whom Moses selected and liken unto those of
the Sanhedrin in Christ's own day. They 'governed, ruled and judged' according
to the Law of Moses, or at least that was their position of authority. And
they had their own 'officers' of enforcement, as such was Laban a Captain of
fifty of the Sanhedrin in the days of Lehi. Now these taken to Babylon at the
time of Jehoiachin were they who stood and opposed king Jehoiakim as they
defended Jeremiah and protected him from the king who on the other hand has
such as the prophet Urijah murdered. Thus they were 'good' figs and worthy to
be eaten. Those left, they that then took upon themselves the order of the
great Sanhedrin after them in the days of Lehi and king Zedekiah, were rotten
figs, evil and corrupt and not fit to be eaten. Such was worthy only unto
destruction.
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