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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 → Jeremiah 31:35

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

Jeremiah 31:35BSB

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:

Significance

Both Jeremiah 33:14-22 and 31:35-37 use the permanence of the cosmic order as a guarantee of God's covenant commitments. Jeremiah 31:35 appeals to God "who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and stars for light by night" (חֻקֹּת, chuqqot, "fixed orders") as the standard of permanence — Israel will not "cease from being a nation" as long as these cosmic ordinances endure. Jeremiah 33:20 echoes this by referring to "My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night" as equally unbreakable. This inner-Jeremianic parallel applies the same nature-covenant argument to two distinct promises: Israel's national permanence (ch. 31) and the Davidic-Levitical institutional permanence (ch. 33). Both ground covenant certainty in creation's regularity.

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