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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

Haggai 1:2 → Jeremiah 29:10

Allusion

Later text

Haggai 1:2BSB

that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "These people say, 'The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.'"

Earlier text

Jeremiah 29:10BSB

For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

Significance

Jeremiah 29:10 promises that "when Babylon's seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place," providing the exiles with hope of return. The people's objection in Haggai 1:2 that "the time has not yet come" likely invokes this very promise, treating Jeremiah's seventy-year timeline as incomplete. Yet Haggai's context makes clear that the return has already occurred—the exiles are back in the land—so the "time" for rebuilding has indeed arrived. The allusion exposes how the community selectively cited Jeremiah's hopeful prophecy while ignoring its implicit call to rebuild the covenant relationship with Yahweh upon their return.

Found via: Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

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