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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 29:14-16 → Jeremiah 24:8-10

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 29:14-16BSB

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." Because you may say, "The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon," this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David's throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—

Earlier text

Jeremiah 24:8-10BSB

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. I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them. And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.'"

Significance

Jeremiah 29:14-16 echoes the "bad figs" vision of Jeremiah 24:8-10. In chapter 24, God declares that Zedekiah and the Jerusalem remnant are like figs "so bad they cannot be eaten" (תְּאֵנִים הָרָעוֹת, te'enim hara'ot), destined for "sword and famine and plague" (24:10). Chapter 29:17-18 repeats this triad — "sword and famine and plague" — against those remaining in Jerusalem, using the same language of making them "a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach" among the nations. The verbal repetition across these two oracles establishes a consistent prophetic verdict: the Jerusalem remnant under Zedekiah, not the Babylonian exiles, is the condemned community. This inner-Jeremianic repetition reinforces the prophet's paradoxical message that submission to exile is the path to God's favor.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the vision's verdict on the Jerusalem remnant (24:8-10) is restated and enacted in the letter (29:14-18) with the same triad of sword, famine, and plague; across the two oracles the prophetic word moves from vision to pastoral application, fixing the exiles — not those who remained — as the community through whom God's restoration purposes advance.

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Babylonian Exile Trajectory Table