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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 27:16 → 2 Kings 24:13

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 27:16BSB

Then I said to the priests and to all this people, "This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, 'Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.' They are prophesying to you a lie.

Earlier text

2 Kings 24:13BSB

As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.

Significance

Jeremiah 27:16 warns against false prophets who predict the quick return of the temple vessels (כְּלֵי בֵית יְהוָה, kelei beit YHWH), while 2 Kings 24:13 records the historical removal: Nebuchadnezzar "carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD... and cut up all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made." The Deuteronomistic historian's account corroborates Jeremiah's warning that the vessels would not return quickly. The specific mention of Solomon's gold articles being "cut up" underscores the devastating finality of the temple's despoliation and validates Jeremiah's message against the false prophets' optimism about an imminent restoration of temple worship.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the temple-vessels thread (carried off in 2 Kings 24, held in Babylon against false hope in Jeremiah 27, restored in Ezra 1) tracks the exile and restoration of God's dwelling as one developing canonical motif.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Zerubbabel (Royal Seed Rebuilding) Trajectory Table