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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 20:7 → Deuteronomy 22:25

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 20:7BSB

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 22:25BSB

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

Significance

Jeremiah 20:7 uses the verb פָּתָה (patah, "to deceive/seduce") and חָזַק (chazaq, "to overpower/prevail") to describe God's treatment of him, language that echoes the Deuteronomic law of sexual assault where a man "overpowers" (חָזַק, chazaq) a woman in the field (Deut 22:25). The shared vocabulary creates a provocative echo: Jeremiah likens his prophetic calling to being seized against his will by an irresistible force. Just as the overpowered woman in Deuteronomy bears no guilt, Jeremiah implies he had no choice in bearing the prophetic burden. This daring metaphor conveys the anguish of compulsory divine service — Jeremiah did not choose to prophesy destruction against his own people, yet God's overwhelming power left him no alternative.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — Jeremiah's confession borrows the legal category of Deut 22:25, where a man "overpowers" (חָזַק) a woman who bears no guilt: the prophet, "overcome" and prevailed upon by God (Jer 20:7, the same root), likens his compelled prophetic service to the overpowered innocent of the case law; the correspondence is a daring analogical self-description, not a promise, progression, or type.