Naughty figs
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Easton's 18971 verse reference
Easton's 1897
(Jer. 24:2). “The bad figs may have been such either from having decayed, and thus been reduced to a rotten condition, or as being the fruit of the sycamore, which contains a bitter juice” (Tristram, Nat. Hist.). The inferiority of the fruit is here referred to as an emblem of the rejected Zedekiah and his people.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · public domain
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- Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Public domain