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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 25:12 → 2 Chronicles 36:21

Quotation

Later text

Jeremiah 25:12BSB

But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

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 25:12 promises that "when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon," while 2 Chronicles 36:21 confirms fulfillment by stating the land "enjoyed its Sabbath rest" for seventy years, "in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah." The Chronicler interprets Jeremiah's seventy years through the lens of Leviticus 26:34-35, understanding the exile's duration as compensation for accumulated Sabbatical year violations. The emphasis in v. 12 on Babylon's subsequent punishment adds a second dimension: not only will Israel's exile end after seventy years, but Babylon itself will face divine judgment — a promise historically fulfilled through the Persian conquest under Cyrus.

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

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2