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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

Acts 13:20 → 1 Kings 6:1

Allusion

Later text

Acts 13:20BSB

All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Earlier text

1 Kings 6:1BSB

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Exodus 31:6BSB

Moreover, I have selected Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, as his assistant. I have also given skill to all the craftsmen, that they may fashion all that I have commanded you:

Earlier text

Judges 2:16BSB

Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 7:11BSB

Then the men of Israel charged out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth-car.

Significance

"About 450 years" is a puzzling figure not found in the OT and appears to be a deduction — Gill reckons it from the wilderness period, the conquest, and the judges down to Samuel, harmonized against 1 Kings 6:1's 480th-year datum (from the exodus to Solomon's temple foundation). The chronological note serves Paul's redemptive-historical recital: "God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet" (Acts 13:20) compresses the whole judges era into one bounded stage of the progression that runs from the exodus through the judges (Judg 2:16) and Samuel's deliverance (1 Sam 7) to Saul, David, and David's promised descendant, "the Savior Jesus" (13:23). The pair's payload is progression, not typology: Paul's chronology marks the era's limits — a stage that ends — exactly the shape TT 089 traces (the deliverer-cycle exhausted, superseded by prophet and king on the way to Christ).

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Judges (Flawed Deliverers) Trajectory Table