Text: Jeremiah 31:31
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 29:1
Subject: new covenant
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Contrast
Anchor Text: Jer 31:31-34 — The New Covenant
Significance: Jeremiah 31:31 explicitly announces a "new covenant" (בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה, berit chadashah) that will be "not like the covenant I made with their fathers" — the covenant described in Deuteronomy 29:1, which Moses made with Israel "in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He made with them at Horeb." The Deuteronomic covenant was characterized by external commandments that Israel failed to keep (Deut 29:4: "the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear"). Jeremiah's new covenant addresses precisely this deficiency — "I will put My law within them and write it on their hearts" (31:33). The contrast between these two covenant-making moments — Deuteronomy's external law on stone and Jeremiah's internalized law on hearts — defines the fundamental difference between old and new covenants.
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Text: Deuteronomy 29:1
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 31:31
Subject: new covenant
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast + Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Jer 31:31-34 — The New Covenant
Significance: Deuteronomy 29:1 introduces a covenant (בְּרִית, berit) "in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb," acknowledging that the Sinai/Horeb covenant alone would prove insufficient. Jeremiah 31:31 announces "a new covenant" (בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה, berit chadashah) that is explicitly "not like the covenant I made with their fathers." Both texts recognize the limitations of the existing covenant arrangement, but from different vantage points: Moses supplements the Horeb covenant anticipatorily, while Jeremiah announces its eschatological replacement. The verbal connection through בְּרִית links these two moments, with Jeremiah's "new covenant" answering the implicit need that Deuteronomy 29's supplementary covenant attempted to address.