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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

Hosea 13:6 → Deuteronomy 8:12-14

Allusion

Later text

Hosea 13:6BSB

When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 8:12-14BSB

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Significance

Hosea 13:6 traces a deadly sequence — "when they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and they forgot Me" — that directly mirrors Moses' warning in Deuteronomy 8:12-14: "when you eat and are satisfied... your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God." Both texts use the same pattern of שָׂבַע (sava', "to be satisfied/full") leading to forgetting (שָׁכַח, shakhach) God. Hosea shows that Moses' warning has become Israel's reality — the very danger Deuteronomy predicted at the threshold of the Promised Land has materialized centuries later. The satisfaction-pride-forgetfulness cycle demonstrates a persistent spiritual pattern: material provision, apart from gratitude, breeds self-sufficiency that displaces God. The Hebrew of Hosea 13:6 further specifies this pride as רָם לִבָּם (ram libbam, "their heart became lifted up"), naming the precise inward turn beneath the forgetting.

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

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