Yeremia 24:7

24:7 I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I ¹  am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly ²  return to me.’

Yeremia 24:2

24:2 One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. ³  The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.

1 Korintus 6:16

6:16 Or do you not know that anyone who is united with ⁴  a prostitute is one body with her? ⁵  For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” ⁶ 

[24:7]  ¹ tn Heb “I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord.” For the use of “heart” here referring to “inclinations, resolutions, and determinations of the will” see BDB 525 s.v. לֵב 4 and compare the usage in 2 Chr 12:14. For the use of “know” to mean “acknowledge” see BDB 384 s.v. יָדַע Qal.1.f and compare the usage in Jer 39:4. For the construction “know ‘someone’ that he…” = “know that ‘someone’…” see GKC 365 §117.h and compare the usage in 2 Sam 3:25.

[24:7]  ² tn Heb “with all their heart.”

[24:2]  ³ sn See Isa 28:4; Hos 9:10.

[6:16]  ⁴ tn Or “is in relationship with.”

[6:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “is one body,” implying the association “with her.”

[6:16]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.