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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

Daniel 9:2 → Jeremiah 25:11

Quotation

Later text

Daniel 9:2BSB

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 25:11BSB

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Significance

Daniel 9:2 explicitly states that he "understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה (shiv'im shanah, 'seventy years')." This directly quotes Jeremiah 25:11, which declared "these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years." This is one of the clearest examples of inner-biblical interpretation in the OT: Daniel reads Jeremiah's prophecy as authoritative Scripture and uses it as the basis for his prayer of national confession. Daniel's response -- not passive waiting but active prayer -- demonstrates how prophetic texts were understood to require human cooperation with divine timetables. Daniel's reading issues not only in prayer but in fresh revelation: the "seventy weeks" of 9:24-27 take up Jeremiah's seventy years and multiply them sevenfold, extending the prophecy into an eschatological timeline that spans the full scope of redemptive history.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

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