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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 19:5 → 2 Chronicles 28:3

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 19:5BSB

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

Earlier text

2 Chronicles 28:3BSB

Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

Significance

Both texts describe the abomination of child sacrifice in the Valley of Hinnom (גֵּי בֶן־הִנֹּם, gei ven-hinnom). Jeremiah 19:5 condemns those who "burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal," while 2 Chronicles 28:3 records that King Ahaz "sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations." The Chronicler identifies Ahaz as a historical example of the very practice Jeremiah prophetically condemns — both locate the crime in the same geographical valley and describe burning children in fire (Jeremiah: שָׂרַף בָּאֵשׁ, saraf ba'esh; Chronicles: בָּעֵר בָּאֵשׁ, ba'er ba'esh). Jeremiah adds the emphatic divine disavowal: "something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind," making clear that child sacrifice represents the extreme antithesis of true worship.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Ahaz's child sacrifice in the Valley of Hinnom (2 Chr 28:3) marks the royal precedent that, entrenched as national practice, draws Jeremiah's judgment oracle; the pair traces covenant apostasy's advance from a king's abomination to the verdict that renames the valley the Valley of Slaughter — one downward movement of Judah's history toward exile.