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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

Hosea 3:5 → Jeremiah 30:9

Allusion

Later text

Hosea 3:5BSB

Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 30:9BSB

Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Significance

Hosea 3:5 prophesies that "the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king" in "the last days" (בְּאַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים, be'acharit hayyamim), while Jeremiah 30:9 promises "they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them." Both texts pair seeking Yahweh with seeking "David their king" — remarkable because the historical David was long dead when both prophets wrote. The parallel formula "the LORD their God and David their king" (appearing in both texts) points beyond the historical David to a future Davidic ruler. Hosea, writing to the northern kingdom that had rejected the Davidic dynasty, anticipates reunification under Davidic rule, while Jeremiah, writing to Judah in the context of exile restoration, confirms the same eschatological hope. Both frame this Davidic renewal as arising out of a preceding season of discipline — Hosea's Israel "many days without king or prince" (3:4), Jeremiah's Judah amid "the time of Jacob's distress" (30:7) — reinforcing that this promised king emerges only after judgment has run its course.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

David (The King After God's Own Heart) Trajectory Table