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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 1:7

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 1:7BSB

King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.

Significance

Jeremiah 27:22 promises that the temple vessels (כְּלֵי בֵית יְהוָה, kelei beit YHWH) carried to Babylon will eventually be restored — "I will bring them back and restore them to this place." Ezra 1:7 records the fulfillment: "King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods." The detail that the vessels had been placed "in the temple of his gods" underscores the theological humiliation — Yahweh's vessels in a pagan temple — which makes their return all the more significant as a demonstration of divine sovereignty. Cyrus, a pagan king, becomes the unwitting instrument of Jeremiah's prophecy. Ezra's verb "brought out" (הוֹצִיא, hotsi) is not Jeremiah's promised "bring... back" (הֶעֱלֵיתִים); the two texts are tied by promise and fulfillment rather than by shared wording.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — Jeremiah 27:22's pledge that the vessels would be brought back and restored is directly recorded as fulfilled in Ezra 1:7 under Cyrus; the demonstrated relation is promise and documented fulfillment, so the additional Longitudinal Theme label is not carried.

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