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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Matthew 2:17-18 → Jeremiah 31:15

Quotation

Later text

Matthew 2:17-18BSB

Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Earlier text

Jeremiah 31:15BSB

This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:07

Significance

Jeremiah's image of Rachel (matriarch buried near Bethlehem) weeping for children exiled to Babylon finds tragic echo in Herod's massacre. Both represent judgment and loss in the same geographical region. Yet Jeremiah 31 continues with promises of restoration and new covenant, providing hope that tragedy is not the final word. The typological connection places Jesus' arrival within the broader context of Israel's suffering and promised redemption.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy (a recurring pattern of exile-grief, not a designed type — Rachel's weeping typifies Israel's own history repeating, not Christ; the anti-default check fails Pointing-Forwardness to Christ, so this is Greidanus's Analogy, not Typology)