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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 27:7 → Jeremiah 25:11

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 27:7BSB

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Earlier 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.

Significance

Jeremiah 27:7 specifies that nations will serve Nebuchadnezzar, his son, and his grandson "until the time of his own land comes," while Jeremiah 25:11 states the servitude will last "seventy years" (שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה, shiv'im shanah). These two texts within Jeremiah's own corpus provide complementary ways of expressing the same prophetic timeline — one dynastic (three generations of Babylonian kings) and one chronological (seventy years). Together they establish from two angles that Babylonian supremacy is not permanent but divinely delimited, reinforcing the message to submit to Babylon in the short term while trusting God's long-term plan for restoration.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the dynastic form of the timeline ("him and his son and grandson," 27:7) and the chronological form ("seventy years," 25:11) express one divinely delimited epoch of Babylonian supremacy within redemptive history; the complementary reckonings show the exile as a bounded stage God has already scheduled to give way to restoration.