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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 17:14 → Nehemiah 13:15

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 17:14BSB

Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

Earlier text

Nehemiah 13:15BSB

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.

Significance

The connection between these passages is contextual rather than verbal: Jeremiah 17:14 ("Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed") appears within the same chapter where Jeremiah delivers the LORD's Sabbath warning at the gates of Jerusalem (17:19-27), warning that carrying loads on the Sabbath will bring destruction. Nehemiah 13:15 describes the very violation Jeremiah warned against — people treading winepresses and carrying loads into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. The link suggests that the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge identified Nehemiah's situation as the realized consequence of the spiritual condition Jeremiah's broader chapter addresses: a people whose hearts need divine healing because they persist in covenant disobedience.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None