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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

Jeremiah 11:19 → Isaiah 53:7

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 11:19BSB

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more."

Earlier text

Isaiah 53:7BSB

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Significance

Both Jeremiah 11:19 and Isaiah 53:7 use the simile of a lamb (כֶּבֶשׂ, keves / שֶׂה, seh) led to slaughter to depict innocent suffering at the hands of hostile enemies. Jeremiah describes his own experience — unaware of the plots against him by the men of Anathoth, he was "like a gentle lamb led to slaughter." Isaiah 53:7 had already given the same image to the Suffering Servant who "did not open His mouth." The verbal and conceptual echo suggests that Jeremiah, the later prophet, voiced his own persecution in the lamb imagery of the Fourth Song. The two portraits differ in kind: where Jeremiah is an unwitting victim of personal persecution, Isaiah's Servant willingly and silently submits in a redemptive self-offering. Both texts share the same root for "slaughter" (ט־ב־ח — Jeremiah's verb, Isaiah's noun טֶבַח, tevach), reinforcing that this is not merely thematic but verbal correspondence.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Suffering Servant

Linked Mentions 7

Trajectory Tables 6

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 52:13-53:12 — The Suffering Servant

Jeremiah 11:19 → Isaiah 53:7

Significance

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