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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 13:19 → Deuteronomy 7:1

Allusion

Later text

Acts 13:19BSB

And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 7:1BSB

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Joshua 14:1BSB

Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.##### Joshua 14 . 2

Significance

"Having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance" (Acts 13:19). Paul compresses the conquest into a single clause drawn from Moses' charge: the LORD would drive out before Israel "seven nations larger and stronger than you" and give them the land (Deuteronomy 7:1; cf. Joshua 14:1). The gift of the land as inheritance is the goal of the exodus and the sign of covenant faithfulness kept. The connection is redemptive-historical: the settled inheritance in Canaan is another stage on the way to Christ, and itself a shadow of the true rest and inheritance secured in Him. The land God won by driving out the nations anticipates the imperishable inheritance kept in heaven (1 Peter 1:4) for all — from every nation now — who are in the Son.

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