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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 4:7 → Jeremiah 2:11

Allusion

Later text

Hosea 4:7BSB

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 2:11BSB

Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Significance

Hosea 4:7 accuses Israel of exchanging "their Glory for a thing of disgrace" (כְּבוֹדָם בְּקָלוֹן הֵמִירוּ, kevodam beqalon hemiru), while Jeremiah 2:11 asks, "Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged (הֵימִיר, hemir) their Glory for useless idols." Both prophets use the same rare verb הֵמִיר (hemir, "to exchange") with the same object — Israel's כָּבוֹד (kavod, "Glory," a title for God) — traded for worthless idols. Jeremiah may be directly echoing Hosea's formulation, as both express the absurdity that no pagan nation abandons its gods, yet Israel uniquely exchanges the living God for non-entities. The shared vocabulary creates a prophetic tradition of the "great exchange" motif that Paul later develops in Romans 1:23.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the "great exchange" motif: both prophets indict Israel with the same rare verb הֵמִיר (hemir, "to exchange") and the same object, "their Glory," traded for worthless idols (Hos 4:7; Jer 2:11), a thread that runs from Hosea through Jeremiah (cf. Ps 106:20) to Paul's indictment of humanity in Romans 1:23