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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 34:14 → Leviticus 25:10

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 34:14BSB

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

Earlier text

Leviticus 25:10BSB

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

Significance

Jeremiah 34 describes Zedekiah's covenant "to proclaim liberty" (דְּרוֹר, deror — at 34:8, and again at 34:15 and 17) for Hebrew slaves; verse 14 itself recites the seventh-year release law that the proclamation was meant to honor. The chapter's term is the same distinctive one that appears in Leviticus 25:10's Jubilee legislation: "proclaim liberty (דְּרוֹר, deror) in the land for all its inhabitants." The rare word דְּרוֹר links Jeremiah's historical narrative to the Jubilee principle: Zedekiah's proclamation was essentially a Jubilee-type release. The tragic irony is that the people first honored this release during the Babylonian siege (hoping for divine favor) but then reneged when the siege lifted temporarily (34:11). Jeremiah condemns this as a profanation of God's name, using the broken Jubilee as the final covenant violation that seals Jerusalem's doom. Notably, Jeremiah's own wording in verse 14--"Every seventh year… you must let him go free"--actually reflects the sabbatical-year release law of Deuteronomy 15:12, showing Zedekiah's proclamation invoked the wider release tradition alongside the Levitical Jubilee.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the rare term דְּרוֹר, which the surrounding narrative uses for Zedekiah's proclamation (Jeremiah 34:8, 15, 17), binds that proclamation to the Jubilee liberty of Leviticus 25:10, an installment on the release-proclamation trajectory that runs through Isaiah 61:1 to Christ's proclamation of liberty in Luke 4:18-19.

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