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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

Luke 17:29 → Genesis 19:24

Allusion

Later text

Luke 17:29BSB

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Earlier text

Genesis 19:24BSB

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:16

Significance

Jesus' discourse on the days of the Son of Man includes the Sodom analogy: "But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all" (Luke 17:29), evoking Genesis 19:24 where gāprît wāʾēš ("sulfur and fire") fall from Yahweh out of the heavens. The destruction of Sodom functions throughout Scripture as the paradigm of sudden, comprehensive divine judgment on a civilization oblivious to its own doom (cf. Amos 4:11; Isaiah 1:9; 13:19; Jude 7). Jesus uses the Sodom event — paired with the Flood — to characterize the unexpected and inescapable nature of eschatological judgment. Life will be proceeding with apparent normalcy; then the Son of Man is revealed and everything changes instantaneously. The dual use of flood and fire also connects to 2 Peter 3:5-7, where the same pattern of past water-judgment and coming fire-judgment frames the eschatological horizon.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Redemptive-Historical Progression

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Fire from Heaven (Divine Acceptance and Judgment) Trajectory Table