John Trapp on Jeremiah 24:1

CHAP. XXIV.

Ver. 1. THe Lord ſhewed me] By ſhewing as well as by ſaying, hath God ever ſignified his minde to his people: by the viſible as well as by the audible Word, as in Sacrifices and Sacraments, for their better confirmation in the Faith.

And behold two baskets] Dodaim, ſo called from Dodim Breaſts: becauſe theſe two baskets reſembled two breaſts.

Were ſet before the Temple] Either viſionally or elſe actually there ſet: whether preſented for firſt-fruits, as Deut. 26.2. or ſet to be ſold in ſuch a publike place.

Before the Temple] To ſhew that the Jews of both ſorts gloried in the ſame God: but were differently regarded by him, and accordingly ſentenced.

After that Nebuchadnezzar] This then was ſhewed to Jeremy about the beginning of Zedekiah's raign.

Had carried away captive Jeconiah] Who was therefore and thenceforth called Jeconiah Aſir, 1 Chron. 3.16. that is, Jeconiah the Priſoner, He was a wicked Prince, and therefore written childleſſe, and threatened with deportation, chap. 22. Howbeit, becauſe by the advice of the Prophet Jeremy he ſubmitted to Nebuchadnezzar, (who carried him away to Babylon, where (ſay the Rabbines) he repented, and was therefore at length advanced by Evil-merod[illegible: 1 letter]h, as chap. 5[illegible: 1 letter].) he and his company are here comforted, and pronounced more happy (however it might ſeem otherwiſe) then thoſe that continued ſtill in the land. And this, ſay the Hebrews, was not obſcurely ſet forth alſo by thoſe two baskets of figs: whereof that which was worſt ſhewed beſt, and the other ſhewed worſt till they came to be taſted.Raban. Hugo. Lyra.

With the Carpenters] Or Craftsmen, 2 King. 24.14, 16.

And Smiths] Heb. Incloſers, that is, ſay ſome, Gold-ſmiths, whoſe work it is to ſet ſtones in gold. And theſe, thus carried away, are as a type of ſuch, ſaith Oecolampadius, as are penitent and patient till the Lord ſhall turn again their captivity as the ſtreams in the ſouth.