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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 20:7 → Exodus 22:16

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

Exodus 22:16BSB

If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.

Significance

Jeremiah 20:7 opens with "You have deceived me" (פִּתִּיתַנִי, pittitani, "you have seduced me") using the verb פָּתָה (patah), which is the same root used in Exodus 22:16 for seduction: "If a man seduces (יְפַתֶּה, yefatteh) a virgin." The shared verb creates a verbal echo between prophetic complaint and case law about sexual seduction. Jeremiah's metaphorical use implies that God enticed him into the prophetic vocation with compelling attraction — but unlike the seduced virgin in Exodus, Jeremiah cannot escape the relationship's consequences. The result is that he is "a laughingstock all day long," bearing reproach for a message of judgment he feels compelled but not willing to deliver. The verb behind "seized"—חָזַק (chazaq, "to overpower")—completes the coercion imagery: God's enticement is followed by an overpowering seizure, mirroring the two-stage assault described in Exodus 22:16's case law.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the shared verb פָּתָה ("seduce," Exod 22:16; פִּתִּיתַנִי, Jer 20:7) lets Jeremiah describe his call analogically through the seduction case law: enticed by God's compelling word as the virgin is enticed, then overpowered (חָזַק), he bears the consequences of a vocation he cannot escape; the legal scenario functions as metaphor for divine compulsion, not as type or fulfillment.