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“The LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good.
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Verse 5. Regard. Lit. “know,” with love. Psalms 1:6. Bible.—Jechonias was treated with honour, (4 Kennicott. 25:27) as well as Daniel (2:48) and Zorobabel, of the same family. Calmet. 29:5. The captives, under Sedecias, (verse 8) were much more abused. Calmet. 29:17. Calmet.—This is the literal sense; the mystical shews that the good shall be rewarded. Worthington.
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