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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 48:5 → Numbers 21:28-29

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 48:5BSB

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

Earlier text

Numbers 21:28-29BSB

For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon's heights. Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Significance

Jeremiah 48:5 references Moabite geography that appears in the Numbers 21:28-29 Song of Heshbon, drawing on the same ancient tradition about Moab's defeat. Numbers records the original conquest song — "a fire went out from Heshbon... It consumed Ar of Moab" — while Jeremiah's oracle against Moab describes refugees weeping along the same routes. The shared geographical references (Moabite cities and landmarks) and the theme of Moab's devastation connect the ancient military song to Jeremiah's prophetic oracle, showing that the prophet viewed contemporary events through the lens of Israel's canonical memory of Moab's earlier defeats.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the weeping flight along Moab's roads (Jer 48:5) unfolds within an oracle that reads the present through the Song of Heshbon's remembered devastation (Num 21:28-29); Jeremiah views Babylon's conquest analogically through Israel's canonical memory of Moab's earlier defeat — the same territory swept by the same judgment pattern.