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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 7:9 → Exodus 20:16

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

Exodus 20:16BSB

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Significance

Exodus 20:16 prohibits bearing false witness (עֵד שָׁקֶר, ed shaqer), and Jeremiah 7:9 includes committing perjury (הִשָּׁבֵעַ לַשֶּׁקֶר, hishshavea lashsheqer, "swearing falsely") among the Decalogue violations committed by those who seek refuge in the temple. Both texts use the root שׁ-ק-ר (sh-q-r, "falsehood/deception") to describe the offense. Jeremiah's rhetorical question—"Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury... and then come and stand before Me in this house?"—exposes the absurdity of invoking God's protection while violating the very commandments that define the covenant relationship. The ninth commandment's prohibition becomes evidence in the prophet's case against Jerusalem.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme (+ Redemptive-Historical Progression) — the Decalogue's prohibition of false witness (Exod 20:16) functions in the temple sermon as the covenant standard now prosecuted: Jeremiah reads Judah's perjury (הִשָּׁבֵעַ לַשֶּׁקֶר, 7:9) as breach of the Sinai charter that voids the temple's protection, moving the covenant from its founding stipulations to the lawsuit that ends in exile; the shared root שׁ-ק-ר carries the charge from Sinai to the courtroom.

▸ The Decalogue

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Covenant Violations (Prophetic Indictments) Trajectory Table

Jeremiah 7:9 → Exodus 20:16

Significance

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