Later text
Jeremiah 1:6BSB
"Ah, Lord GOD," I said, "I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!"
Intertextuality Pair
Jeremiah 1:6 → Deuteronomy 18:18
Allusion
Earlier text
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
Significance
Jeremiah's protest "I surely do not know how to speak" (לֹא יָדַעְתִּי דַּבֵּר, lo yadati dabber) directly echoes Moses's claim of being "slow of speech," but the key connection lies in God's response: Deuteronomy 18:18 promises "I will put My words in his mouth" (וְנָתַתִּי דְבָרַי בְּפִיו), which is precisely what God does to Jeremiah in 1:9 — "I have put My words in your mouth." This verbal parallel identifies Jeremiah as a fulfillment of the Deuteronomic prophetic office, a prophet raised up "like Moses" who speaks not his own words but God's. Jeremiah's reluctance based on youth mirrors Moses's reluctance based on eloquence, establishing a prophetic-call pattern where human inadequacy meets divine commissioning.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Promise-Fulfillment — Deuteronomy 18:18's pledge "I will put My words in his mouth" is enacted verbatim at Jeremiah's call (1:9), marking him a fulfillment of the Deuteronomic prophetic office; no Christward typing of Jeremiah is demonstrated in this pair (the office's escalation to Christ belongs to the Deut 18 anchor network), so Typology is not carried here.
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