I will also give them over for quaking, for calamity, in all the kingdoms of the earth, for reproach and for a proverbial saying, for a taunt and for a malediction, in all the places to which I shall disperse them.

Jer. 24:8-10.

17. How bad a ‘fig’ did Zedekiah turn out to be, and with what consequences?

¹⁷ Certainly Jehovah found no pleasure in those symbolic “bad figs,” which he determined to bring to such a calamitous finish, under international reproach and contempt.