“One basket contained very good figs, like the early figs in the other basket, but were very bad figs, which one could not eat for wickedness.” There were two baskets of figs in front of the Temple after the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had taken Jehoniah the king of Judah captive to Babylon. The prophet Jeremiah presents two baskets of figs as a symbol of Israel’s future. “Thus says the Lord: Order your house for you will die and not live!”Īnd what did Isaiah do, he “brought a mass of dried figs! And when they brought one, they put it on the boil, and he was healed.” When King Hezekiah was dying, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amos, came to him and said: “Judah and Israel lived in safety from Dan to Beersheba everyone sat under his vine and his fig tree as long as Solomon lived.” (1 Kings 5) “They came to the valley of Eshkol, and there cut a vine with a bunch of grapes, and had them carried by twos on a pole, along with pomegranates and figs.”īoth the fig tree and the vine symbolize a prosperous economy in the land where peace and security prevail. When Moses sent the men to spy out the land of Canaan, we read: Perhaps the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a fig tree, because when you suddenly realize you are naked, you grab the nearest thing to cover yourself. The fig leaves were so large that even Adam and Eve used them to cover their nudity, so if you will, the fig leaves were the first fashion statement. The fig tree has always been an important fruit tree in Israel, along with the olive tree and grapevine, and was popular as a provider of shade because of its large leaves. Since then, the fig tree has appeared several times in biblical history and is one of the seven fruits in the Promised Land, together with wheat, barley, grapes, pomegranates, olives and dates.
Adam and Eve, realizing their nakedness, covered themselves with fig leaves. The only tree that is mentioned by name is the fig tree.Īlready in the creation story in paradise, the fig leaves are mentioned during God’s first judgment, when He banished the first humans from the Garden of Eden.
In the Garden of Eden two important trees are spoken of, both of which have an important task in the development of the newly-created world, the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God didn’t name the trees except for one.
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