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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 13:23 → Judges 3:9

Allusion

Later text

Acts 13:23BSB

From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.

Earlier text

Judges 3:9BSB

But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

1 Samuel 7:12BSB

Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 49:6BSB

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Earlier text

Psalms 89:29BSB

I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:57

Significance

"From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised" (Acts 13:23). Paul's σωτήρ vocabulary inherits the LXX's rendering of the judges-era moshia ("deliverer," Judges 3:9 — Othniel, the first raised-up deliverer), so the verbal bridge from the deliverer-cycle is real; but Paul deploys it through Davidic descent and promise ("as He promised"; cf. Ps 89:29's enduring Davidic line, Isa 49:6's salvation to the ends of the earth), not through judge-succession. The judges are a stage in the progression (Acts 13:20), not types of Christ — Othniel is not typed to Jesus; the promise-fulfillment runs through David's offspring (per TT 089, which declines judge-typology).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Judges (Flawed Deliverers) Trajectory Table