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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 29:9-10 → Jeremiah 24:8-10

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 29:9-10BSB

For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD." For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

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 29:9-10 warns the Babylonian exiles against false prophets while restating the seventy-year timeline, while Jeremiah 24:8-10 pronounces judgment on those remaining in Jerusalem as "bad figs" destined for "sword and famine and plague." The connection lies in the contrast between the two communities: the exiles who obey Jeremiah's letter (ch. 29) and accept the seventy-year timeline will be restored as "good figs," while those who remain under Zedekiah — influenced by false prophets promising deliverance — will become "a horror and an offense" among the nations. Both passages address the same crisis from different angles: chapter 24 presents the vision, and chapter 29 applies it pastorally to the exilic community through Jeremiah's letter.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the pair aligns the two communities' destinies in the unfolding exile: the bad figs who remain under Zedekiah face sword, famine, and plague (24:8-10), while the exiles who outlast the false prophets and the seventy years (29:9-10) inherit the restoration; one redemptive-historical trajectory runs from the judgment vision to the scheduled return.