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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 25:11 → 2 Chronicles 36:21

Quotation

Later text

Jeremiah 25:11BSB

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Earlier text

2 Chronicles 36:21BSB

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

Significance

Jeremiah 25:11 prophesies that "these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years" (שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, shiv'im shanah), while 2 Chronicles 36:21 retrospectively interprets this prophecy as fulfilled: "So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah." The Chronicler explicitly credits Jeremiah as the prophetic source and adds a theological interpretation: the seventy years correspond to the accumulated Sabbath-year violations (drawing on Lev 26:34-35), so that in the exile the land "enjoyed its Sabbath rest." This transforms Jeremiah's specific time prediction into a covenantal theology of land-rest, showing that the exile's duration was not arbitrary but divinely calculated according to Israel's Sabbatical debt.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2