Intertextuality Pair

Hosea 8:13 → Jeremiah 14:10

Allusion

Later text

Hosea 8:13BSB

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 14:10BSB

This is what the LORD says about this people: "Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account."

Significance

Hosea 8:13 warns that God "will remember their iniquity and punish their sins" (יִזְכֹּר עֲוֹנָם וְיִפְקֹד חַטֹּאתָם, yizkor avonam veyifqod chatotam), and Jeremiah 14:10 renders the same Hebrew formula: "He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account" (עַתָּה יִזְכֹּר עֲוֹנָם וְיִפְקֹד חַטֹּאותָם). The verbal parallel is striking — both prophets employ the same two-verb formula (זָכַר/פָּקַד, zakhar/paqad, "remember/visit") to describe God's judicial response. In Hosea, the context is Israel's hypocritical sacrifices that God does not accept; in Jeremiah, the context is the people's love of wandering away from God. The shared formula functions as a covenant-lawsuit verdict formula, signaling that God's patience has reached its limit and judicial action will follow.

Found via
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type
Allusion
Connection Method(s)
Analogy — both prophets pronounce the identical two-verb covenant-lawsuit verdict (זָכַר/פָּקַד, remember/visit) against a people whose worship God refuses to accept, Jeremiah's sentence over Judah standing to his generation as Hosea's stood over Israel

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