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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 20:8 → Exodus 22:16

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 20:8BSB

For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

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

The connection between Jeremiah 20:8 and Exodus 22:16 operates through the shared root פָּתָה (patah, "to seduce/entice"), which appears in Jeremiah 20:7 and establishes the semantic field for the entire confession (vv. 7-8). Exodus 22:16 addresses the case of a man who "seduces" a virgin, while Jeremiah accuses God of having "seduced" him into prophetic service. Jeremiah 20:8 extends the consequence: because he was enticed into this vocation, "whenever I speak" the result is reproach and derision. The seduction metaphor conveys both the initial attractiveness of the divine call and the subsequent entrapment — Jeremiah was drawn in by God's compelling word but now finds himself unable to escape the social cost of faithfully delivering it. The verb behind Jeremiah's outcry—זָעַק (za'aq, "to cry out"; אֶזְעָק in 20:8)—completes the seduction-to-outcry sequence begun in the shared root פָּתָה.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the seduction case law's verb פָּתָה, taken up in Jeremiah's "You have deceived me" (20:7), frames the whole confession of vv. 7-8: enticed into the prophetic vocation and unable to escape its cost, Jeremiah speaks of his call through the analogy of the seduced party of Exod 22:16; the transfer is metaphorical-analogical, with no fulfillment or typological escalation in view.