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A Babylonian Chronicle records that, in his seventh year (597), Nebuchadnezzar <\/span><\/p>\n

besieged the city of Judah and on the second day of the second month of Adar, seized the city, and captured the king. He appointed there a king of his own choice, received its heavy tribute and returned to Babylon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The biblical account of this same event (2 Kings 24:10-17) names the two Judan kings, the deposed king Jeconiah and the king of Babylon’s “own choice,” Zedekiah, who would lead Judah for the eleven years before its destruction. Our chapter’s prophecy comes in the wake of this event.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the first time in history, the people are divided between an exilic community in Babylon, with most of the original Judan political and military elite, and a homeland community still in Judah, where “only the poorest of the land” remain (2 Kings 24:14). The social and geographic gaps between the communities led the Judeans in Jerusalem to view the exile of Jeconiah as a religious-economic justification for a land grab. In their eyes, the very fact that they get to remain in the land must prove that they are in the right. According to the prophet Ezekiel (himself a member of the community in exile) the homeland Judans say to their brethren in exile, “Keep far from the Lord; the land has been given as a heritage to us” (Ezekiel 11:15).<\/span><\/p>\n

With his vision of the fig baskets, Jeremiah stands diametrically opposed to the thinking of his fellow Judans in the homeland. Contrary to the casual theological observers among his brethren, for Jeremiah in this chapter, the exile does not reflect reward for good behavior or punishment for sin. 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