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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 27:22 → Ezra 1:11

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 27:22BSB

'They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'"

Earlier text

Ezra 1:11BSB

In all, there were 5,400 gold and silver articles. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Significance

Jeremiah 27:22 prophesies that the temple vessels will be "carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again... Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place." Ezra 1:11 records the fulfillment: "Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles went up from Babylon to Jerusalem." The verb פָּקַד (paqad, "to attend to/visit") in Jeremiah 27:22 signals God's promised intervention, and the return of the vessels under Cyrus's decree demonstrates that divine visitation. The vessels' restoration to Jerusalem serves as a concrete, physical demonstration that Jeremiah's prophetic word — which contradicted the false prophets — has been vindicated. Ezra 1:11 uses הֶעֱלָה (he'elah, "brought up") for Sheshbazzar's action and tallies the inventory at 5,400 articles of gold and silver in all, underscoring the completeness of the fulfillment.

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

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