How to read this page

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

Graph View — tap the constellation icon in the top bar to see this page's connections as a web of light: gold points are passages, and the coloured threads are the connection types. Click any type in the graph's own legend to filter it in or out, and use the expand control for the full-screen night sky.

New to a term? The Glossary explains every abbreviation and term on the site in plain words.

Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 7:9 → Deuteronomy 5:17

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 7:9BSB

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:17BSB

You shall not murder.

Significance

Deuteronomy 5:17-20 lists four commandments: "You shall not murder… You shall not commit adultery… You shall not steal… You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." Jeremiah 7:9 catalogues the identical sins in his temple sermon: "Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury…?" (הֲגָנֹב רָצֹחַ וְנָאֹף וְהִשָּׁבֵעַ לַשֶּׁקֶר, haganov ratzoach vena'of vehishavea' lashaqer). The prophet directly echoes the Decalogue's prohibitions to demonstrate that Judah is systematically violating the covenant's core ethical requirements while continuing to offer sacrifices. Jeremiah's rhetorical question exposes the absurdity of seeking temple refuge while breaking the commandments the temple enshrines, making his sermon a Deuteronomic covenant lawsuit against Judah's presumptuous worship.

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

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2