Text: Jeremiah 48:29
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 21:28
Subject: oracles against Moab
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Jeremiah 48 draws extensively on ancient Moabite traditions, and the connection to Numbers 21:28 reflects the incorporation of the ancient Song of Heshbon into Jeremiah's oracle against Moab. Numbers 21:28 records "fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab," while Jeremiah 48 reapplies this historical defeat to a new context of Moab's imminent destruction. Both texts share geographical references — Heshbon, Moab — and fire imagery, showing how Jeremiah repurposes ancient victory songs as prophetic judgment oracles. The allusion grounds the prophetic word in remembered history: what happened to Moab before will happen again.