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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

Amos 1:2 → Jeremiah 25:30

Allusion

Later text

Amos 1:2BSB

He said: "The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers."

Earlier text

Jeremiah 25:30BSB

So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: 'The LORD will roar from on high; He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. He will roar loudly over His pasture; like those who tread the grapes, He will call out with a shout against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Significance

Both Amos 1:2 and Jeremiah 25:30 employ the image of Yahweh roaring (שָׁאַג, sha'ag) from His heavenly dwelling to announce judgment against the nations. Amos opens his oracle cycle with "The LORD roars from Zion," while Jeremiah extends this theophanic motif to depict God roaring "from on high" against "all the inhabitants of the earth." Jeremiah's expansion of the image from regional judgment (Amos's surrounding nations) to universal scope shows how the prophetic tradition amplified Amos's localized divine warrior imagery into a comprehensive vision of cosmic judgment. Amos's own oracle already names this roar's effect on creation itself — "the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers" — showing the roar's devastation extends beyond the nations to the land itself.

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