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Jer 24:2 — One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

One basket	Jer 24:5-7; Hsa 9:10; Mic 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 Isa 28:4.
naughty	The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state. Jer 24:8-10; Isa 5:4,7; Eze 15:2-5; Mal 1:12-14; Mat 5:13
they were so bad	Heb. for badness.