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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 53:7-8

Echo

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 53:7-8BSB

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. By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

Significance

Both passages employ the image of a lamb led to slaughter (כְּכֶבֶשׂ לַטֶּבַח, kekheves latevach) to describe an innocent figure subjected to unjust suffering. Jeremiah says of himself, "I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter," while Isaiah's Servant "was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent." The shared imagery connects Jeremiah's experience of persecution by his own people in Anathoth (11:21) with Isaiah's Suffering Servant who is "cut off from the land of the living" (53:8). Both figures are innocent, both face plots from their own community, and both are depicted in passive submission — yet Isaiah's Servant goes beyond Jeremiah's experience by bearing others' iniquities, escalating the motif from prophetic suffering to vicarious atonement. This same lamb-to-slaughter motif runs further along its canonical arc—from Abel through the Passover lamb, through Jeremiah, to Christ the Lamb of God, whom Acts 8:32-35 quotes directly from this very passage.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the shared lamb-led-to-slaughter image places both figures on the canonical innocent-sufferer arc that runs from Abel through the Passover lamb to the Lamb of God; the escalation to vicarious atonement belongs to Isaiah's Servant, and no NT text retrospectively types Jeremiah himself, so Typology is not demonstrated for this pair.

▸ The Suffering Servant

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 3

Anchor Texts 1

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

Jeremiah 11:19 → Isaiah 53:7-8

Significance

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