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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 29:14 → Jeremiah 24:8

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 29:14BSB

I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile."

Earlier text

Jeremiah 24:8BSB

But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,' says the LORD, 'so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.

Significance

Both texts address the contrast between the exiled community (the "good figs") and those remaining in Jerusalem (the "bad figs"). Jeremiah 24:8 identifies Zedekiah and those remaining in Jerusalem as "bad figs" (תְּאֵנִים הָרָעוֹת, te'enim hara'ot) destined for sword, famine, and plague. Jeremiah 29:14 reinforces this judgment by contrasting the exiles' future restoration — "I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you" — with the fate of those who remained, whom God will pursue with "sword and famine and plague" (29:17-18). The connection demonstrates Jeremiah's counterintuitive theology: exile, not remaining in the land, is the path to restoration, and the "bad figs" who stayed behind face the severer judgment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the bad-figs verdict of the vision (24:8) is carried forward into the letter's unfolding application (29:14-18): restoration is promised to the exiles gathered from the nations, while sword, famine, and plague pursue those who stayed; the pair tracks redemptive history's counterintuitive path — through exile, not around it — toward the promised regathering.