Text: Jeremiah 31:31-34
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 29:1-4
Subject: new covenant contrasted with the old covenant's failure
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Contrast
Anchor Text: Jer 31:31-34 — The New Covenant
Significance: Deuteronomy 29:1-4 establishes the Moab covenant with the sobering acknowledgment that "the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear to this day" (לֹא־נָתַן יְהוָה לָכֶם לֵב לָדַעַת, lo-natan YHWH lakhem lev lada'at). Jeremiah 31:31-34 directly addresses this deficiency: the new covenant (בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה, berit chadashah) will internalize the law — "I will put My law within them and write it on their hearts" — and ensure universal knowledge of God — "they will all know Me." Where Deuteronomy diagnoses the old covenant's fatal flaw (no heart to understand), Jeremiah prescribes the remedy (a new heart with internalized Torah). The contrast between external covenant obligations that Israel "broke" (31:32) and internal transformation that ensures covenant faithfulness constitutes the most explicit OT articulation of the old-to-new covenant transition.
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Text: Deuteronomy 29:1-4
OT Text Referred to: Jeremiah 31:31-34
Subject: Covenant failure and the new covenant promise
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Contrast
Anchor Text: Jer 31:31-34 — The New Covenant
Significance: Deuteronomy 29:4 diagnoses Israel's fundamental problem: "to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear" (לֹא נָתַן יְהוָה לָכֶם לֵב לָדַעַת, lo natan YHWH lakhem lev lada'at). Jeremiah 31:33 promises the solution: "I will put My law within them and write it on their hearts" (נָתַתִּי אֶת תּוֹרָתִי בְּקִרְבָּם וְעַל לִבָּם אֶכְתְּבֶנָּה, natatti et torati beqirbam ve'al libbam 'ekhtevenah). Moses identified the internal deficiency—hearts that cannot perceive God's ways—and Jeremiah promises the divine remedy: a new covenant that internalizes the Torah through direct divine inscription on the heart. The contrast is stark: where Moses could only note the absence of spiritual understanding, Jeremiah announces God's future gift of the very capacity the old covenant could not produce.