Text: Jeremiah 3:16 — "when you multiply and increase in the land"
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 1:28
Source: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Schnittjer, Old Testament Use of Old Testament)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression, Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Gen 1:28 — The Adamic Commission
Significance: Genesis 1:28 commands humanity to "be fruitful (pārâ) and multiply (rābâ) and fill the earth," the load-bearing verb-pair of the Adamic commission. In Jeremiah 3:16 the prophet's restoration vision marks the new-covenant age — when the faithless children "return" to Zion (3:14) — with the same fruitfulness language: "In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land." After the corporate Adam's covenant adultery (the whole chapter indicts Israel's harlotry), God promises not condemnation but a renewed multiplication so abundant that the ark of the covenant will no longer be missed, for the LORD's presence will fill Jerusalem itself, now called "the Throne of the LORD" with all nations gathered (3:17). The commission's fruitfulness clause is thus reissued as a marker of restoration that transcends the old cultic order, gathering the nations into Edenic fullness. This trajectory finds its telos in Christ, in whom the regathered people multiply as disciples filling the earth (Matt 28:18-20).