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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 13:17-18

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 13:17-18BSB

Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, "What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day? Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!"

Significance

Nehemiah 13:17-18 rebukes the nobles of Judah for profaning the Sabbath and explicitly connects their behavior to the forefathers' sin that brought "all this disaster on us and on this city." Jeremiah 17:14, embedded in the same chapter where the prophet warns about Sabbath violation bringing fire on Jerusalem's gates (17:27), cries "Heal me, O LORD" (רְפָאֵנִי יְהוָה, refa'eni YHWH) — a plea arising from the same spiritual malady of persistent disobedience. Nehemiah's warning that the nobles are "rekindling His wrath" demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Jeremiah's Sabbath oracle; the condition requiring divine healing that Jeremiah lamented had not been cured by the exile itself.

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