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Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
For just as a loincloth clings to a man's waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
Earlier text
that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
Both passages use the distinctive triad of "praise, renown/name, and glory/honor" (תְּהִלָּה, שֵׁם, תִּפְאֶרֶת — tehillah, shem, tif'eret) to describe God's purpose for Israel. Deuteronomy 26:19 promises that God will set Israel "high in praise and name and honor above all the nations," while Jeremiah 13:11 declares that God made Israel cling to Him "so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory." The near-identical vocabulary shows Jeremiah deliberately echoing the Deuteronomic covenant promise. The tragic twist in Jeremiah is the concluding judgment: "but they did not listen" — the loincloth that was meant to cling to God became ruined and useless, an enacted parable of Israel's failure to fulfill its Deuteronomic calling.