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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 33:14 → 1 Kings 8:25

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 33:14BSB

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Earlier text

1 Kings 8:25BSB

Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: 'You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.'

Significance

Jeremiah 33:14-22 promises the perpetuity of both the Davidic and Levitical covenants, declaring that the "righteous Branch" will never lack a successor on the throne nor the Levitical priests lack someone to offer sacrifices. This echoes 1 Kings 8:25, where Solomon appeals to God's promise: "You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done." Both texts ground the dynasty's permanence in divine covenant promise, but Jeremiah removes the conditional element — where Solomon's prayer includes "if only your descendants guard their way," Jeremiah's oracle ties the Davidic covenant's permanence to the cosmic order (day and night) rather than to human obedience, making it unconditional.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2