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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 25:11-12

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 25:11-12BSB

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. 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.

Significance

Jeremiah 27:7 prophesies that "all nations will serve him [Nebuchadnezzar] and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes," aligning with Jeremiah 25:11-12's prediction that Babylonian dominion will last seventy years before God punishes the Babylonian king. Both texts establish the temporary nature of Babylon's power — it has a divinely appointed terminus. The specification of three generations in 27:7 adds specificity to the seventy-year prophecy of 25:11-12, and both were fulfilled when Babylon fell to Cyrus the Persian. This inner-Jeremianic cross-reference demonstrates that the prophet's oracles form a coherent body of prediction regarding the duration and conclusion of the exile.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — both oracles delimit the same divinely appointed epoch: seventy years of servitude (25:11-12) and three generations of Babylonian kings (27:7) mark Babylon's dominion as a bounded stage in redemptive history, ending in Babylon's punishment and Judah's restoration; the pair charts the fixed timetable by which God moves His people through judgment toward return.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Babylonian Exile Trajectory Table