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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
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 36:21 → Leviticus 26:34-35

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:21BSB

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:34-35BSB

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

Significance

Leviticus 26:34-35 warns that when Israel is exiled, "the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths (שַׁבְּתוֹתֶיהָ) all the days it lies desolate… As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it." 2 Chronicles 36:21 explicitly identifies the seventy-year Babylonian exile as the fulfillment of this threat: "So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed." The Chronicler interprets the exile's precise duration as compensation for accumulated sabbatical-year violations — the land receives the rest that Israel's disobedience denied it. This represents one of the clearest cases in Scripture where a covenant curse from Leviticus is identified as historically fulfilled with calculated precision.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

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